Preparedness of Australasian emergency departments for point-of-care ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic.
Vijay ManivelDavid G HerbertGareth Ian KitsonDougal Buchanan RobertsonJocelyne Marie BassealJames ManionPublished in: Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine (2021)
Australasian EDs significantly lacked investment in education, training and protocols to conduct safe POCUS in the COVID-19 pandemic. A framework with evidence-based, logistically feasible protocols supporting safe emergency POCUS is required to deal with similar future infectious outbreaks.