RT Book, Section
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.
SR Print(0)
ID 57789270
T1 Chapter 4. Ultrasound in Prehospital and Austere Environments
T2 Ma and Mateer's Emergency Ultrasound, 3e
YR 2014
FD 2014
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-179215-8
LK accessemergencymedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=57789270
RD 2024/04/16
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).