TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Trauma Ultrasound: The FAST and EFAST Scans A1 - Zeger, Wesley A2 - Reichman, Eric F. Y1 - 2018 N1 - T2 - Reichman's Emergency Medicine Procedures, 3e AB - Evaluation of blunt trauma patients with ultrasound (US) has been described for over 30 years.1-3 Its use in the United States in the early assessment of blunt abdominal trauma patients rapidly increased in the 1990s.1 It is currently taught as an adjunct to the secondary survey in the Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course and in residencies.1,4 US evaluation of the trauma patient decreases the costs in blunt trauma patients, resource utilization, and time to operative care.5,6 There are many advantages to US (Table 8-1).7 The focused assessment with sonography in trauma examination is known as the FAST examination and can be completed within 5 minutes.1 It has replaced the need for a diagnostic peritoneal lavage (Chapter 84) in the initial assessment of all but a few trauma patients.8,9 This chapter reviews the technique and interpretation of the FAST examination and the extended FAST, or EFAST, examination. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159793655 ER -