Point-of-Care multi-organ ultrasound improves diagnostic accuracy in adults presenting to the emergency department with acute dyspnea

Western Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 46-53

  Mantuani, Daniel ^a   Frazee, Bradley W ^a   Fahimi, Jahan ^b   Nagdev, Arun ^a  

^a Department of Emergency Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyspnea; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERSTITIAL LUNG DISEASE; LUNG; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POINT OF CARE ULTRASOUND; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REAL TIME ULTRASOUND SCANNER; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE COURSE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EVALUATION STUDY; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT OF CARE SYSTEM; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; LUNG; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84959093549     PISSN: 1936900X     EISSN: 19369018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2015.11.28525     Document Type: Review

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