Point-of-Care Transthoracic Echocardiography: A Growing Body of Evidence, an Educational Need.

J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth

Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Published: January 2020

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