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Diagnostic accuracy of pocket-size handheld echocardiographs used by cardiologists in the acute care setting
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Testuz, Ariane Marie
Müller, Hajo
Keller, Pierre-Frédéric
Meyer, Philippe
Stampfli, Tomoe Elianne Lybia
Sekoranja, Lucka
Vuille, Cédric
Burri, Haran Kumar
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
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PMID: 22535657
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Faculté de médecine / Section de médecine clinique / Département de médecine
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(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

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