Focused critical care echocardiography

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 2618-2626

  Oren Grinberg, Achikam ^a   Talmor, Daniel ^a   Brown, Samuel M ^b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Critical care; Echocardiography; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACCREDITATION; ARTICLE; CERTIFICATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; FOCUSED CRITICAL CARE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTENSIVE CARE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RESUSCITATION;

CARDIOPULMONARY RESUSCITATION; CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS;

EID: 84887056839     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0b013e31829e4dc5     Document Type: Article

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