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Image Acquisition using Portable Sonography for Emergency Airway Management
Published on: September 28, 2022
Five easy-to-master uses for point-of-care ultrasound
Fritz Fuller1, Francisco Norman
1Fritz Fuller practices emergency medicine at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah, and with Emergency Services of New England in Windsor, Vt. Francisco Norman is director of emergency ultrasound at the Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center in Davenport, Fla. Both are on the board of directors for the Society of Physician Assistants in Clinical Ultrasound.
Abstract:
Clinicians are increasingly becoming familiar with the value of limited, focused point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) to help answer discrete clinical questions. Ultrasound education is being taught in medical schools and physician assistant (PA) and PA postgraduate programs nationwide. This article introduces five basic POC ultrasound scans that can easily be mastered by practicing PAs.
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