Improved efficiency and diagnostic utility of inpatient transthoracic echocardiography following implementation of a sonographer-initiated perflutren-based contrast administration protocol

BACKGROUND: Up to 20% of resting echocardiograms obtained are suboptimal leading to further downstream testing and delays in diagnosis. Contrast enhanced echocardiography is well established and endorsed for use by the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in clinical scenarios when 2 or more a...

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Autores principales: Prentice, Ryan, Ahmadian, Homayoun, Thomas, Dustin, Berger, Jeremy, Gore, Rosco
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7433118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32807198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-020-00215-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7433118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32807198
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12947-020-00215-0

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