A bedside ultrasound is what it sounds like: a compact, portable ultrasound machine alongside the patient’s hospital bed. It allows doctors to conduct ultrasound imaging at the point of care to make a diagnosis or guide an invasive procedure.

Bedside ultrasound has become a standard part of the exam for many clinicians. Here we review some basic aspects of the bedside exam and the ultrasound machines used.

Understand the basic physics, knobology, and transducer orientation of ultrasound. List the core ultrasound applications used at the bedside in the Emergency Department. Recognize common pathologic findings detectable on core emergency ultrasound studies.

2020年3月1日 · Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is performed by a physician at the bedside and is standard practice in obstetric, emergency, and musculoskeletal medicine. When compared with...

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a bedside ultrasound exam performed by a treating healthcare professional who interprets the ultrasound images immediately at the patient’s bedside to manage their care.

2021年10月20日 · Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is defined as the acquisition, interpretation, and immediate clinical integration of ultrasonographic imaging performed by a treating clinician at the...

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), ultrasound imaging acquired and interpreted by a treating clinician at the bedside, has emerged as a tool that can augment the diagnostic accuracy of the traditional bedside assessment. 1–3 Emerging evidence shows that the accuracy of certain POCUS applications rivals and sometimes surpasses that of conventional...

Critical Care Medicine www.ccmjournal.org2479 Objective:To establish evidence-based guidelines for the use of bedside ultrasound by intensivists and specialists in the ICU and equivalent care sites for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes for organs of the chest, abdomen, pelvis, neck, and extremities.

2022年12月21日 · With ongoing training and support—and innovations that enhance accuracy and portability—bedside ultrasound further enables clinicians in performing rapid point-of-care evaluations and improving patient outcomes.

2020年5月20日 · When time counts and your patient is sick, bedside ultrasound can quickly make the diagnosis to help you provide appropriate and definitive care when it matters most. This is the basis for the SonoSave series, which examines ultrasound saves and the critically ill patients alive today because of point of care ultrasound.