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ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2021

It's Not All about Echocardiography. Open the Lung Window for the Cardiac Emergencies.

Eftihia Polyzogopoulou, Antonios Boultadakis, Ignatios Ikonomidis, John Parissis

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Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Eftihia PolyzogopoulouEmergency Medicine Clinic, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Antonios BoultadakisEmergency Medicine Clinic, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.
Ignatios Ikonomidis2nd Department of Cardiology, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8241-7886
John ParissisEmergency Medicine Clinic, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 12462 Athens, Greece.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the acute cardiac care setting, undifferentiated clinical presentations such as dyspnea, chest pain, shock, and cardiac arrest are common diagnostic challenges for the clinician. Lung ultrasonography is a well-established diagnostic tool which can be integrated in simplified decision making algorithms during the initial approach of the patient, in order to differentiate accurately cardiac from non-cardiac causes and improve the management of time-sensitive cardiovascular emergencies.

Indexed as

EchocardiographyEmergenciesDiagnosis, DifferentialDyspneaHeartHumansLungcardiacdiagnosisdifferentialemergencieslungultrasonography

Identifiers

PMID33466680
PMCPMC7828810

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