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Focused echocardiography is a rapidly evolving tool that significantly impacts preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative clinical decision-making for non-cardiac anaesthetists.
Focused echocardiography is an essential, rapidly evolving skill for non-cardiac anaesthetists and intensivists that significantly impacts perioperative clinical decision-making.
May support focused echocardiography training for non-cardiac anaesthetists; leaves open prospective validation of outcome benefits.
Echocardiography is destined to revolutionize perioperative and intensive care medicine, as it has already in cardiac anaesthesia. This article reviews the evidence underlining why now is the time for general anaesthetists to get involved in this rapidly evolving field.
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MJE Peck (2012) conducted a review in Perioperative and intensive care medicine. Focused echocardiography was evaluated. Focused echocardiography is a rapidly evolving tool that significantly impacts preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative clinical decision-making for non-cardiac anaesthetists.
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