Comparison of expert and novice sonographers' performance in focused lung ultrasonography in dyspnea (FLUID) to diagnose patients with acute heart failure syndrome

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 564-573

  Chiem, Alan T ^a   Chan, Connie H ^b   Ander, Douglas S ^c   Kobylivker, Andrew N ^d   Manson, William C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPNEA; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; JOB PERFORMANCE; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOLOGIST; RESIDENT; ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EDUCATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEART EDEMA; HEART FAILURE; LUNG; MEDICAL ERROR; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DYSPNEA, PAROXYSMAL; EDEMA, CARDIAC; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SYNDROME;

EID: 84929044224     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12651     Document Type: Article

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