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GENERAL MEDICINE/SYSTEMATIC REVIEW SNAPSHOT • Is Chest Ultrasonography Superior to Supine Chest Radiography in Identifying Pneumothorax in Emergency Department Trauma Patients?

In this clinical synopsis, the authors included 9 studies comprising 1,271 patients with 410 pneumothoraces from an initial 2,293 references. The median prevalence of traumatic pneumothorax was 30% (range 21% to 52%). The overall sensitivity of chest ultrasonography was 0.91......
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ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN COVID-19 • The Predictive Role of Combined Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound in Coronavirus Disease 2019

Despite the recognition of the prognostic significance and clinical implications of the cardiac complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), both the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography recommend limiting the echocardiographic assessme...
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH • Pneumothorax Diagnosis with Lung Sliding Quantification by Speckle Tracking: A Prospective Multicentric Observational Study

Lung ultrasound is commonly used for the diagnosis of pneumothorax, when the absence of pleural sliding, B-lines and lung pulse, or by the presence of a lung point, has been recommended to make the ultrasound diagnosis of pneumothorax......
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PERIOPERATIVE MEDICINE • Ultrasound Evaluation of Gastric Emptying Time in Healthy Term Neonates after Formula Feeding

The current American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) fasting guideline for formula-fed infants in the periprocedural setting is 6 h before elective procedures requiring general anesthesia, regional anesthesia, or sedation/analgesia.......
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QUALITY IMPROVEMENT REPORT • Improving the Documentation Quality of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Scans in the Emergency Department

Point-of-care ultrasound scan (POCUS) has been incorporated a as a mandatory element of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM)since 2010. All trainees must be signed off as competent in the four CORE clinical applications......
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE | Scoping Review of Implementing a Longitudinal Curriculum in Undergraduate Medical Education: The Wake Forest Experience.

The integration of hands-on ultrasound experience has become a highly desirable component for undergraduate medical education (UGME) curricula throughout the United States. Several schools have implemented a student-performed ultrasound experience......
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ORIGINAL ARTICLE | Case series: Point-of-Care Ultrasound Conducted by Medical Students During their First Clinical Rotation Changes Patients’ Primary Diagnosis and Management

The authors point out that we practice medicine in a transitional time where POCUS has entered the curriculum of some medical schools, but many senior and experienced physicians do not hold this new bedside capability......
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH | Emergency Medicine Advanced Ultrasound Service: A New Paradigm

The use of point-of-care US (POCUS) has become well established in emergency medicine (EM), largely due to social and economic pressures to provide rapid assessment and transit through the emergency department (ED) and the desire for improved diagnostic and procedural ability in acute care settings....
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