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. 2011 Oct;4(4):526-7.
doi: 10.4103/0974-2700.86654.

Telementorable "just-in-time" lung ultrasound on an iPhone

Innes Crawford  1 , Paul B McBeth, Mark Mitchelson, Corina Tiruta, James Ferguson, Andrew W Kirkpatrick
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Telementorable "just-in-time" lung ultrasound on an iPhone

Innes Crawford et al. J Emerg Trauma Shock. 2011 Oct.
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Figure 1
iPhone image as viewed in Aberdeen demonstrating the “Power slide” confirming pleural sliding with imbedded image of remote examiner holding US probe in Calgary
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