My patient has no blood pressure: Point-of-care ultrasound in the hypotensive patient: FAST and RELIABLE

Ultrasound

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 64-68

  Liteplo, Andrew ^a   Noble, Vicki ^a   Atkinson, Paul ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Diagnostic imaging; Echocardiography; Education; Emergency medicine; Miscellaneous; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856766440     PISSN: 1742271X     EISSN: 17431344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/ult.2011.011044     Document Type: Article

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