Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 290-295 , March 2010

Emergency Department Bedside Ultrasonographic Measurement of the Caval Index for Noninvasive Determination of Low Central Venous Pressure

Presented as preliminary results at the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine annual meeting, June 2008, Washington, DC.

Received 15 October 2008 ,Revised 14 April 2009 ,Accepted 29 April 2009.

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 Supervising editor: David T. Overton, MD, MBA

 Author contributions: ANN conceived of the study, oversaw the data collection, and participated in the analysis and preparation of the article. RCM conducted the data analysis and prepared the article. ANN, AT-G, CAS, and MCM participated in the data collection. AT-G, CAS, and MCM participated in the review of the preparation of the article. ANN takes responsibility for the paper as a whole.

 Funding and support: By Annals policy, all authors are required to disclose any and all commercial, financial, and other relationships in any way related to the subject of this article that might create any potential conflict of interest. The authors have stated that no such relationships exist. See the Manuscript Submission Agreement in this issue for examples of specific conflicts covered by this statement.

 Publication date: Available online June 25, 2009.

 Please see page 291 for the Editor's Capsule Summary of this article.

PII: S0196-0644(09)00482-X

doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2009.04.021

Annals of Emergency Medicine
Volume 55, Issue 3 , Pages 290-295 , March 2010

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