Feasibility and accuracy of point-of-care pocket-size ultrasonography performed by medical students

BMC Medical Education

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Andersen, Garrett Newton ^a,c   Viset, Annja ^b   Mjølstad, Ole Christian ^a,b   Salvesen, Øyvind ^a   Dalen, Håvard ^a,c   Haugen, Bjørn Olav ^a,b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b TRONDHEIM UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^c Levanger Hospital   (Norway)

Author keywords

Bedside; Echocardiography; Hand held; Medical student; Point of care ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DEVICES; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL STUDENT; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EDUCATION, MEDICAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STUDENTS, MEDICAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84906555125     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6920-14-156     Document Type: Article

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