Impact of Point-of-Care Ultrasound on Secondary Triage: A Pilot Study.

Riccardo StucchiEric S WeinsteinAlba Ripoll-GallardoJeffrey M FrancMassimo AzzarettoGiovanni SesanaFrancesco Della CorteLuca Neri

Published in: Disaster medicine and public health preparedness (2022)

All 4 physicians were able to suspect hemoperitoneum as a possible critical condition to be managed first, but only physicians with additional sonographic information accurately detected pneumothorax and hemothorax, thus deciding to immediately evacuate or treat.

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primary care
emergency department
magnetic resonance imaging
health information