Fast track echo of abdominal aortic aneurysm using a real pocket-ultrasound device at bedside

Echocardiography

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 285-290

  Dijos, Marina ^a   Pucheux, Yann ^a   Lafitte, Marianne ^a   Réant, Patricia ^a   Prevot, Alain ^a   Mignot, Aude ^a   Barandon, Laurent ^a   Roques, Xavier ^a   Roudaut, Raymond ^a   Pilois, Xavier ^a   Lafitte, Stéphane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

abdominal aorta aneurysm; pocket echography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VSCAN EQUIPMENT;

AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; CHILD; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MINIATURIZATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84858798948     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01559.x     Document Type: Article

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