Systematic review: Emergency department bedside ultrasonography for diagnosing suspected abdominal aortic aneurysm

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 128-138

  Rubano, Elizabeth ^a   Mehta, Ninfa ^a   Caputo, William ^a   Paladino, Lorenzo ^a   Sinert, Richard ^a  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ABDOMINAL MASS; AORTA; AORTOGRAPHY; AUTOPSY; BACKACHE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LAPAROTOMY; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PALPATION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VASODILATATION;

ABDOMEN; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873927458     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12080     Document Type: Review

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