TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Chapter 4. Ultrasound in Prehospital and Austere Environments A1 - Heegaard, William G. A1 - Walcher, Felix A1 - Brenner, Franziska A1 - dell'Orto, Marco Campo A1 - Kirschning, Thomas A1 - Marzi, Ingo A1 - Breitkreutz, Raoul A1 - Zechner, Peter M. A1 - Aichinger, Gernot A1 - Wildner, Gernot A1 - Prause, Gerhard A1 - Petrovic, Tomislav A1 - Lapostolle, Frédéric A1 - Adnet, Frédéric A1 - Ho, Jeffrey D. A1 - Kirkpatrick, Andrew W. A1 - McBeth, Paul B. A1 - Crawford, Innes A1 - Tiruta, Corina A1 - Price, Daniel D. A2 - Ma, O. John A2 - Mateer, James R. A2 - Reardon, Robert F. A2 - Joing, Scott A. Y1 - 2014 N1 - T2 - Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound, 3e AB - The term “out-of-hospital ultrasound” refers to sonographic examinations performed in a wide variety of settings outside of traditional hospital departments, laboratories, and freestanding imaging centers. “Prehospital ultrasound” is synonymous, even though this term is mostly used in reference to EMS and tactical medicine applications. Prehospital ultrasound examinations are generally not performed by radiologists or clinicians; caregivers incorporate the use of ultrasound into the initial patient assessment at the point of care in the prehospital setting. The images obtained provide real-time morphologic and functional clinical information. In the emergency and critical care literature, “point-of-care ultrasound” most commonly refers to “bedside emergency ultrasound” since the scientific debate has been originally focused on patients being cared for in the ED; the resuscitation, operative, or recovery room; the intensive care unit; the diagnostic imaging department; or other medical and surgical wards. Diagnostic and therapeutic advances have allowed “critical care” to be taken outside of the hospital setting to the scene of illness and injury in a wide variety of settings (Table 4-1). SN - PB - The McGraw-Hill Companies CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/29 UR - accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57789270 ER -