Guidelines for the use of echocardiography as a monitor for therapeutic intervention in adults: A report from the american society of echocardiography

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 40-56

  Porter, Thomas R ^a   Shillcutt, Sasha K ^a   Adams, Mark S ^b   Desjardins, Georges ^c   Glas, Kathryn E ^d   Olson, Joan J ^a   Troughton, Richard W ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Doppler; Echocardiography; Monitoring; Therapy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART PERFUSION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTENSIVE CARE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SPINE SURGERY; SYSTEMIC VASCULAR RESISTANCE; TISSUE DOPPLER IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR SURGERY; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TEST; MALE; STANDARDS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84927596315     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: 10976795     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2014.09.009     Document Type: Article

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