Portable bedside ultrasound: the visual stethoscope of the 21(st )century

Over the past decade technological advances in the realm of ultrasound have allowed what was once a cumbersome and large machine to become essentially hand-held. This coupled with a greater understanding of lung sonography has revolutionized our bedside assessment of patients. Using ultrasound not a...

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Autores principales: Gillman, Lawrence M, Kirkpatrick, Andrew W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3352312/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22400903
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-20-18
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description Over the past decade technological advances in the realm of ultrasound have allowed what was once a cumbersome and large machine to become essentially hand-held. This coupled with a greater understanding of lung sonography has revolutionized our bedside assessment of patients. Using ultrasound not as a diagnostic test, but instead as a component of the physical exam, may allow it to become the stethoscope of the 21(st )century.
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spelling pubmed-33523122012-05-16 Portable bedside ultrasound: the visual stethoscope of the 21(st )century Gillman, Lawrence M Kirkpatrick, Andrew W Scand J Trauma Resusc Emerg Med Review Over the past decade technological advances in the realm of ultrasound have allowed what was once a cumbersome and large machine to become essentially hand-held. This coupled with a greater understanding of lung sonography has revolutionized our bedside assessment of patients. Using ultrasound not as a diagnostic test, but instead as a component of the physical exam, may allow it to become the stethoscope of the 21(st )century. BioMed Central 2012-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC3352312/ /pubmed/22400903 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-7241-20-18 Text en Copyright ©2012 Gillman and Kirkpatrick; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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