Objective: To determine whether emergency physicians (EPs) with goal‐directed training
can use echocardiography to accurately assess left ventricular function (LVF) in hypotensive …

Objectives: Emergency department (ED) bedside echocardiography may offer useful
information on cardiac function and volume status. The authors evaluated the accuracy of …

Objectives The aim of this study was to evaluate if emergency medicine trainees with a short
duration of training in echocardiography could perform and interpret bedside-focused …

Methods After limited focused training, 2 trained EPs performed bedside echocardiography
(BECH) procedures s between January and June 2012 to prospectively evaluate patients …

Background Bedside transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) provides rapid and noninvasive
hemodynamic assessment of critically ill patients but is limited by the immediate availability …

The hypothesis of this study states that in emergency department (ED) patients with
nontraumatic symptomatic hypotension, the presence of hyperdynamic left ventricular …

Objective. Echocardiography can be a rapid, noninvasive, objective tool in the assessment
of ventricular function and preload during resuscitation of a critically ill or injured child. We …

BACKGROUND This prospective study was designed to test the hypothesis that the
assessment of left ventricular systolic function at the time of emergency room (ER) …

Study Objective: Accurate diagnosis in emergency department patients with possible
myocardial ischemia is problematic. Two-dimensional echocardiography has a high …

Acute left ventricular (LV) dysfunction is common in the critical care setting and more
frequently affects the elderly and patients with comorbidities. Because of increased mortality …