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Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography

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    Keith Pearce BSc

  2. St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK

    John Chambers MD FESC FACC

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Pearce, K., Chambers, J. Safety and efficacy of physiologist-led dobutamine stress echocardiography. Echo Res Pract 5, E9–E10 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1530/ERP-18-0059

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