Implementation of Ultraportable Echocardiography in an Adolescent Sudden Cardiac Arrest Screening Program

Background Over a 12-month period, adolescent heart-screening programs were performed for identifying at-risk adolescents for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in our community. Novel to our study, all adolescents received an abbreviated, ultraportable echocardiography (UPE). In this report, we describe th...

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Main Authors: Thomas E. Vanhecke, James E. Weber, Matthew Ebinger, Kimberly Bonzheim, Frank Tilli, Sunilkumar Rao, Abdulfatah Osman, Marc Silver, Karsten Fliegner, Steve Almany, David Haines
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2014-01-01
Series:Clinical Medicine Insights: Cardiology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/CMC.S15779