RT Book, Section
A1 Reardon, Robert F.
A1 Laudenbach, Andrew
A1 Joing, Scott A.
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Mateer, James R.
A2 Reardon, Robert F.
A2 Joing, Scott A.
SR Print(0)
ID 57789804
T1 Chapter 6. Cardiac
T2 Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound, 3e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179215-8
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57789804
RD 2022/09/26
AB Echocardiography  is  the  gold  standard  for  the  diagnosis  of  many  cardiac  abnormalities.  Point-of-care  echocardiography  (or  focused  cardiac  ultrasound),  performed  and  interpreted  by  clinicians,  was  described  25  years  ago.1–3  Since  then,  there  has  been  a  significant  amount  of  accumulated  data  to  demonstrate  that  this  practice  changes  management  and  improves  patient  care.4–73  Clinician-performed  echocardiography  is  now  a  well-accepted  part  of  the  practice  of  emergency  medicine.43,74,75  In  addition,  clinicians  who  manage  critically  ill  or  injured  patients  in  other  clinical  settings  are  adopting  the  practice  of  focused  cardiac  ultrasound.76–115