RT Book, Section A1 Zeger, Wesley A2 Reichman, Eric F. SR Print(0) ID 1159793655 T1 Trauma Ultrasound: The FAST and EFAST Scans T2 Reichman's Emergency Medicine Procedures, 3e YR 2018 FD 2018 PB McGraw-Hill Education PP New York, NY SN 9781259861925 LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1159793655 RD 2024/03/28 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.