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Diagnostic accuracy of pocket-size handheld echocardiographs used by cardiologists in the acute care setting |
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Published in | European heart journal. Cardiovascular imaging. 2013, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 38-42 | |
Abstract | Pocket-size echographs may be useful for bedside diagnosis in acute cardiac care, but their diagnostic accuracy in this setting has not been well tested. Our aim was to evaluate this tool in patients requiring an urgent echocardiogram. | |
Keywords | Aortic Valve/ultrasonography — Cardiology/trends — Echocardiography/instrumentation — Echocardiography, Doppler/instrumentation/methods — Emergency Service, Hospital — Equipment Design — Heart Failure/diagnosis/ultrasonography — Humans — Miniaturization — Mitral Valve/ultrasonography — Pericardial Effusion/diagnosis/ultrasonography — Point-of-Care Systems — Predictive Value of Tests — Reproducibility of Results — Sensitivity and Specificity — Severity of Illness Index — Tricuspid Valve/ultrasonography | |
Identifiers | DOI: 10.1093/ehjci/jes085 PMID: 22535657 | |
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Citation (ISO format) | TESTUZ, Ariane Marie et al. Diagnostic accuracy of pocket-size handheld echocardiographs used by cardiologists in the acute care setting. In: European heart journal. Cardiovascular imaging, 2013, vol. 14, n° 1, p. 38-42. doi: 10.1093/ehjci/jes085 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:78065 |