Prospective assessment of a score for assessing basic critical-care transthoracic echocardiography skills in ventilated critically ill patients

Annals of Intensive Care

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Jozwiak, Mathieu ^a   Monnet, Xavier ^b,c   Cinotti, Raphaël ^d   Bontemps, Fréderic ^e   Reignier, Jean ^a   Belliard, Guillaume ^f  

^a service de réanimation   (France)

^b BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^d CHU de Nantes   (France)

^e Centre Hospitalier Côte de Lumière   (France)

^f Centre Hospitalier de Lorient   (France)

Author keywords

Basic critical care echocardiography skills; Goal oriented bedside echocardiography; Hemodynamic assessment; Intensive care unit; Non cardiologist intensivists

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESIDENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SKILL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VENTILATED PATIENT;

EID: 84958254544     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21105820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2110-5820-4-12     Document Type: Article

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