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Table 4 Number of participants achieving successful transesophageal echocardiography image acquisition

From: Focused transesophageal echocardiography for emergency physicians—description and results from simulation training of a structured four-view examination

Cardiac view

Number (and %) of participants achieving successful image acquisition

 

Post-workshop (n = 14 participants)

6-week retention (n = 12 participants)

Mid-esophageal four-chamber

14 (100 %), k = 1.0

12 (100 %), k = 0.92 (95 % CI 0.76, 1.0)

Mid-esophageal long axis

10 (71.4 %), k = 0.65 (95 % CI 0.21, 1.0)

12 (100 %), k = 0.67 (95 % CI 0.39, 0.95)

Transgastric short-axis

11 (78.6 %), k = 1.0

11 (91.7 %), k = 1.0

Bicaval

11 (78.6 %), k = 1.0

11 (91.7 %), k = 1.0

Totals

46 (82.1 %), k =

46 (95.8 %), k =