RT Book, Section
A1 Budhram, Gavin R.
A1 Reardon, Robert F.
A1 Plummer, David W.
A2 Ma, O. John
A2 Mateer, James R.
A2 Reardon, Robert F.
A2 Joing, Scott A.
SR Print(0)
ID 57791150
T1 Chapter 8. Critical Care
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=57791150
RD 2023/09/25
AB The  management  of  critically  ill  patients  becomes  more  challenging  when  they  are  hemodynamically  unstable  or  clinically  deteriorating,  and  the  underlying  etiology  of  their  condition  is  unclear.  This  often  occurs  shortly  after  arrival  to  the  ED,  but  can  also  occur  in  other  parts  of  the  hospital  hours  or  days  after  care  has  been  established,  with  unexpected  deterioration  of  a  previously  stable  patient.  In  these  situations,  clinicians  are  often  forced  to  make  treatment  decisions  before  diagnostic  tests  can  be  performed.  A  focused  physical  examination  of  the  critical  organ  systems  is  often  inaccurate  or  misleading.  Point-of-care  ultrasound  can  rapidly  examine  the  same  organ  systems  with  a  higher  degree  of  accuracy.