Predicting Fluid Responsiveness Using Bedside Ultrasound Measurements of the Inferior Vena Cava and Physician Gestalt in the Emergency Department of an Urban Public Hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa

• Hendry Robert Sawe ,

  * E-mail: hendry_sawe@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es salaam, Tanzania, Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0395-5385

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• Cathryn Haeffele,

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America

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• Juma A. Mfinanga,

  Affiliations Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es salaam, Tanzania, Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Victor G. Mwafongo,

  Affiliations Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es salaam, Tanzania, Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

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• Teri A. Reynolds

  Affiliations Emergency Medicine Department, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es salaam, Tanzania, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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