Acute heart failure: the role of focused emergency cardiopulmonary ultrasound in identification and early management

Eur J Heart Fail. 2015 Dec;17(12):1223-7. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.421. Epub 2015 Oct 14.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
² Institute of Emergency for Cardiovascular Diseases C.C.Iliescu, University of Medicine Carol Davila, Bucuresti, Romania.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN, USA.
⁴ Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratories, Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA.
⁵ Division of Cardiology, Center for Cardiovascular Innovation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA.

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Keywords: Cardiopulmonary ultrasound; Echo; Focused cardiac ultrasound; Heart failure; Point of care ultrasound.

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