Audit of cardiac pathology detection using a criteria-based perioperative echocardiography service

Anaesthesia and Intensive Care

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 702-709

  Faris, J G ^a,b,c,d   Hartley, K ^a   Fuler, C M ^a   Langston, R B ^a   Royse, C F ^a,d,e   Veltman, M G ^a,c,d,f  

^a Joondalup Health Campus ^*  (Australia)

^b Departments of Anaesthesia   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f Joondalup Hospital   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anaesthesia; Appropriate usage criteria; Echocardiography; Transthoracic

Indexed keywords

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; EAR NOSE THROAT SURGERY; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; EYE SURGERY; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MURMUR; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OBSTETRIC OPERATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TELEPHONE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UROLOGIC SURGERY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

EID: 84865065269     PISSN: 0310057X     EISSN: 14480271     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0310057x1204000418     Document Type: Article

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