The RUSH exam 2012: Rapid ultrasound in shock in the evaluation of the critically Ill patient

Ultrasound Clinics

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 255-278

  Perera, Phillips ^a   Mailhot, Thomas ^a   Riley, David ^b   Mandavia, Diku ^a  

^a LAC USC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NewYork Presbyterian Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Rapid ultrasound in shock examination; RUSH exam; Shock; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ANEURYSM RUPTURE; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART HYPERTROPHY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILE FORCE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INSPIRATORY CAPACITY; JUGULAR VEIN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIUM; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPSIS; SHOCK; THORAX PRESSURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84858770445     PISSN: 1556858X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cult.2011.12.010     Document Type: Review

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