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Ultrasonography in Emergency Department; a Diagnostic Tool for Better Examination and Decision-Making
Ali Abdolrazaghnejad1, Mohsen Banaie1, Mohammad Safdari2
1Department of Emergency Medicine, Sina Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Context:
The aim of this study is to evaluate the applications of ultrasonography (US) as a diagnostic tool in emergency settings.
Evidence Acquisition:
In the present review article, search engines and scientific databases of Google Scholar, Science Direct, PubMed, Medline, Scopus, and Cochrane were searched for the applications of US in emergencies. Finally, related articles which were published between 2000 and 2017, were selected and by reviewing them an attempt was made to evaluate various applications of US for examining and facilitating decision-making in emergency department (ED).
Results:
As a diagnostic tool, US can be of diagnostic help in emergency settings for the specialists and the treatment team regarding trauma, measuring intracranial pressure (ICP), hemothorax pneumothorax, abscess and its drainage, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), dyspnea, acute abdomen, appendicitis and biliary problems, renal colic and renal stones, shock, foreign object, bone fracture, peripheral nerve block, establishing central and peripheral venous access, lumbar puncture (LP), and confirmation of nasogastric tube (NGT) and endotracheal tube (ETT) placement.
Conclusion:
The results of this review study showed that US can be of help to EMPs as a diagnostic tool in a wide range of diseases and clinical conditions, which in turn can result in a decrease in the time needed for diagnosis and treatment, and therefore improve both the quality and quantity of the service provided in ED.
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