POCUS In The Emergency Department- An Example of Convergence of Defensive Medicine with Patient Care
1Yale School of Medicine, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, 333 Cedar Street, TE2, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Abstract:
Use of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) by emergency physicians has become so common over the past few decades that it is now likely the expected standard of care. Published court cases suggest that emergency physicians are more likely to face litigation for delay of care for failure to perform POCUS than liability due to misdiagnosis when performing POCUS. As such, POCUS represents a rare example where defensive medicine and patient care demands converge.
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