Anesthesiologists' learning curves for bedside qualitative ultrasound assessment of gastric content: A cohort study

Canadian Journal of Anesthesia

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 771-779

  Arzola, Cristian ^a   Carvalho, Jose C A ^a   Cubillos, Javier ^a   Ye, Xiang Y ^b   Perlas, Anahi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING CURVE; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; STANDARD; STOMACH CONTENT;

ADULT; ANESTHESIOLOGY; AUDIOVISUAL AIDS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; DRINKING; EATING; EDUCATIONAL MEASUREMENT; FASTING; FEEDBACK; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; PATIENT POSITIONING; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PYLORIC ANTRUM; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TEACHING;

EID: 84880839699     PISSN: 0832610X     EISSN: 14968975     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12630-013-9974-y     Document Type: Article

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