Basic critical care echocardiography by pulmonary fellows: Learning trajectory and prognostic impact using a minimally resourced training model

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 2169-2177

  See, Kay Choong ^a,b   Ong, Venetia ^a,b   Ng, Jeffrey ^a,b   Tan, Rou An ^a,b   Phua, Jason ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^b Dept Medicine Endocrinol Diabet   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Competency; Cor pulmonale; Echocardiography; Education; Intensive care units

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ADULT; APACHE; ARTICLE; COR PULMONALE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; HEART DISEASES; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS;

ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CRITICAL CARE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE; FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY HEART DISEASE; PULMONARY MEDICINE;

EID: 84914151523     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000413     Document Type: Article

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