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Echocardiography in the Emergency Department
Author(s) -
CORRALL C. JAMES,
CORDELL WILLIAM H.,
TRIPPI JAMES A.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8175.1999.tb00800.x
Subject(s) - emergency department , medicine , medical emergency , test (biology) , diagnostic test , emergency medicine , psychiatry , paleontology , biology
Echocardiography performed in the emergency department must adapt to this new setting for noninvasive diagnostic testing. Emergency physicians require echocardiography to provide rapid diagnosis in life‐threatening emergencies. New initiatives are being proposed by emergency physicians in the delivery of this test. Cardiologists now use echocardiography in the emergency‐department to make the diagnosis of heart disease earlier and with greater accuracy.