Pocket-sized echocardiography devices: One stop shop service?

Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-6

  Seraphim, Andreas ^a   Paschou, Stavroula A ^b   Grapsa, Julia ^a,b   Nihoyannopoulos, Petros ^b  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Hand held; Pocket; Portable; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HANDHELD ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POCKET SIZED ECHOCARDIOGRAPH; PORTABLE ULTRASOUND SCANNER; REVIEW; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 84962034234     PISSN: 19754612     EISSN: 20059655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4250/jcu.2016.24.1.1     Document Type: Review

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