Laptop-sized echocardiography machine versus full-sized top-of-the-line machine: a comparative study.

摘要

Echocardiography has become an essential part of the evaluation of patients in a wide variety of clinical settings1 and an invaluable tool in the treatment of patients who are critically ill in the intensive care unit (ICU) and emergency department Echocardiography can be performed at the bedside, thus, avoiding the need to transport patients who are acutely ill