Evaluation of a new pocket echoscopic device for focused cardiac ultrasonography in an emergency setting.
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..., by electrical impedance tomography, will also increase the amount of information available at the bedside [75, 76]....
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...However, numerous previous studies have clearly demonstrated that when used by experienced echocardiographers, excellent diagnostic accuracy can be achieved with these pocket-sized devices, comparable with traditional stationary equipment.(27,30,32-34) In addition, we used a visual, qualitative approach for the diagnosis and grading of various echocardiographic abnormalities, which added subjectivity to the interpretations and may have influenced the agreement between the on-site sonographers and the remote expert readers....
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...By increasing the number of clinical diagnoses, PUD could prove costeffective by decreasing the number of medical errors, providing a more efficient real-time diagnosis, and reducing the use of unnecessary routine US examinations [17,30]....
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