Diagnosing acute heart failure in patients with undifferentiated dyspnea: A lung and cardiac ultrasound (LuCUS) protocol

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 182-191

  Russell, Frances M ^a   Ehrman, Robert R ^b   Cosby, Karen ^b   Ansari, Asim ^b   Tseeng, Stephanie ^b   Christain, Errick ^b   Bailitz, John ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHANGE MANAGEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GESTALT THERAPY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LUNG AND CARDIAC ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; UNDIFFERENTIATED DYSPNEA; AGED; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPLICATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84925387102     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12570     Document Type: Article

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