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. 2021 Mar;34(3):325-326.
doi: 10.1016/j.echo.2020.11.019. Epub 2020 Dec 3.

Collaboration during Crisis: A Novel Point-of-Care Ultrasound Alliance among Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Cardiology in the COVID-19 Era

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Collaboration during Crisis: A Novel Point-of-Care Ultrasound Alliance among Emergency Medicine, Internal Medicine, and Cardiology in the COVID-19 Era

Nova Panebianco et al. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2021 Mar.
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This work flow describes the process for which a frontline provider at our institution could obtain echocardiographic image acquisition and/or image interpretation support for patients with suspected or confirmed COIVD-19. EMR, Electronic medical record; ICU, intensive care unit; PCR, polymerase chain reaction; TTE, transthoracic echocardiography.

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