American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 25, Issue 8 , Pages 894-900, October 2007

Directed bedside transthoracic echocardiography: preferred cardiac window for left ventricular ejection fraction estimation in critically ill patients

  • Dustin G. Mark, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +1 215 662 6962; fax: +1 215 662 3953.
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  • Bon S. Ku, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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  • Brendan G. Carr, MD, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
    • Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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  • Worth W. Everett, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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  • Olugbenga Okusanya, BA

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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  • Annamarie Horan, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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  • Vicente H. Gracias, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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  • Anthony J. Dean, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA

Received 5 January 2007; received in revised form 17 January 2007; accepted 18 January 2007.

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 Abstract presented at Scientific Assembly, American College of Emergency Physicians, October 16, 2006, New Orleans.

PII: S0735-6757(07)00050-2

doi:10.1016/j.ajem.2007.01.023

American Journal of Emergency Medicine
Volume 25, Issue 8 , Pages 894-900, October 2007