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The Ultrasound Journal

Table 2 Agreement between emergency physicians and cardiologist interpretation

From: Emergency physician use of tissue Doppler bedside echocardiography in detecting diastolic dysfunction: an exploratory study

Emergency physicians

Cardiologist

DD present

DD not present

Indeterminatea

DD present

18

0

1

DD not present

2

22

4

Indeterminateb

0

0

1

  1. aStudies were rated “indeterminate” by cardiology based on the following: fused E and A waves (1), studies that met some criteria but not others (4), and clips with insufficient number of cycles recorded (1)
  2. bOne study was rated “indeterminate” by emergency physicians due to extremely disparate eʹ septal and lateral measurements
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