TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Transthoracic Echocardiography A1 - Reardon, Robert F. A1 - Laudenbach, Andrew P. A1 - Heller, Kimberly A1 - M. Barnes, Ryan A1 - Reardon, Lindsay A1 - Pahl, Thomas A1 - J. Weekes, Anthony A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Mateer, James R. A2 - Reardon, Robert F. A2 - Byars, Donald V. A2 - Knapp, Barry J. A2 - Laudenbach, Andrew P. Y1 - 2021 N1 - T2 - Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound, 4e AB - Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is the gold standard for the diagnosis of many cardiac abnormalities. Cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), performed and interpreted by clinicians, was described in the Emergency Medicine literature 30 years ago.1–3 Since then, there has been a significant amount of accumulated data to demonstrate that POCUS changes management and improves patient care.4–73 POCUS is now a well-accepted part of the practice of emergency and critical care medicine.43,74,75 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1175891730 ER -