Pocket-size echocardiograph-a valuable tool for nonexperts or just a portable device for echocardiographers

Advances in Medical Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-72

  Filipiak Strzecka, D ^a   John, B ^a   Kasprzak, J ^a   Michalski, B ^a   Lipiec, P ^a  

^a Medical University of Lodz Bieganski Hospital   (Poland)

Author keywords

medical student; pocket size echocardiograph; transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEDSIDE TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CARDIOLOGIST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTENSIVE CARE; LEARNING CURVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL STUDENT; POCKET SIZE ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; PORTABLE EQUIPMENT; STANDARD TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84886487673     PISSN: 18961126     EISSN: 18984002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/v10039-012-0054-2     Document Type: Article

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