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Journal of Accident & Emergency Medicine 2000;17:330-333; doi:10.1136/emj.17.5.330-a
© 2000 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and the College of Emergency Medicine.
J Accid Emerg Med 2000; 17:330-333
© 2000 the Emergency Medicine Journal

Clinical topic review

The focused trauma ultrasound examination. Can, and should, accident and emergency physicians in the UK acquire this skill?

Neil Robinson

Department of Accident and Emergency Medicine, Poole General Hospital, Longfleet Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 2JB

Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:Dr McGowan, Dean of the Faculty ofAccident andEmergency Medicine (mcgowns@cwcom.net)

The use of ultrasonography for the investigation of urgent diagnostic problems has been used widely for almost 40 years. During the past decade ultrasonography, by non-emergency department physicians, has achieved a primary role in Europe and Asia in the investigation of emergent conditions such as abdominal and thoracic trauma.16 In the United States the use of this bedside modality by emergency physicians (EPs) has expanded rapidly in recent years with more than 100 emergency departments providing an ultrasound service delivered by EPs.7 A fellowship programme in emergency ultrasonography and model curriculum for EP training in ultrasound have been produced.8 This is fully supported by the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) and the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) who produced their position statements on the subject in 1991.9,10

The crux, of the EPs use of ultrasound in trauma, is that by placement of the ultrasound probe over six anatomical . . . [Full text of this article]


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