Prehospital Ultrasound in Trauma: A Review of Current and Potential Future Clinical Applications

Ultrasound (US) is an essential tool for evaluating trauma patients in the hospital setting. Many previous in-hospital studies have been extrapolated to out of hospital setting to improve diagnostic accuracy in prehospital and austere environments. This review article presents the role of prehospita...

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Autores principales: El Zahran, Tharwat, El Sayed, Mazen J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5852915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29628662
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JETS.JETS_117_17
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description Ultrasound (US) is an essential tool for evaluating trauma patients in the hospital setting. Many previous in-hospital studies have been extrapolated to out of hospital setting to improve diagnostic accuracy in prehospital and austere environments. This review article presents the role of prehospital US in blunt and penetrating trauma management with emphasis on its current clinical applications, challenges, and future implications of such use.
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spelling pubmed-58529152018-04-06 Prehospital Ultrasound in Trauma: A Review of Current and Potential Future Clinical Applications El Zahran, Tharwat El Sayed, Mazen J. J Emerg Trauma Shock Review Article Ultrasound (US) is an essential tool for evaluating trauma patients in the hospital setting. Many previous in-hospital studies have been extrapolated to out of hospital setting to improve diagnostic accuracy in prehospital and austere environments. This review article presents the role of prehospital US in blunt and penetrating trauma management with emphasis on its current clinical applications, challenges, and future implications of such use. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC5852915/ /pubmed/29628662 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/JETS.JETS_117_17 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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