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Emergency department point-of-care ultrasonography improves time to pericardiocentesis for clinically significant effusions

OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to determine the utility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to identify and guide treatment of tamponade or clinically significant pericardial effusions in the emergency department (ED). METHODS: This was a retrospective cohort study of non-trauma patients who were diag...

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Autores principales: Alpert, Evan Avraham, Amit, Uri, Guranda, Larisa, Mahagna, Rafea, Grossman, Shamai A., Bentancur, Ariel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society of Emergency Medicine 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5635453/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29026885
http://dx.doi.org/10.15441/ceem.16.169