Quality of focused thoracic ultrasound performed by emergency medical technicians and paramedics in a prehospital setting: a feasibility study.
Pia Iben PietersenSøren MikkelsenAnnmarie T LassenSimon HelmerikGitte JørgensenGiti NadimHelle Marie ChristensenDaniel WittrockChristian B LaursenPublished in: Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine (2021)
Emergency medical technicians and paramedics perform focused thoracic ultrasound examinations with adequate image quality sufficient to determine if pathology is present or not. The emergency medical technicians' and paramedics' assessment correlates to some extent with an experienced reviewer and their findings are most reliable for the inclusion of a normal scan or inclusion of pleural effusion. Implementation could possibly impact the number of patients receiving correct prehospital treatment and optimal choice of receiving facility.