TY - JOUR T1 - BET 1 USING ULTRASOUND TO DETECT PERITONEAL FLUID IN A PREGNANT PATIENT WITH ABDOMINAL TRAUMA JF - Emergency Medicine Journal JO - Emerg Med J SP - 201 LP - 202 DO - 10.1136/emj.2008.071217 VL - 26 IS - 3 A2 - , Y1 - 2009/03/01 UR - http://emj.bmj.com/content/26/3/201.2.abstract N2 - Report by: Helene Svinos, Medical StudentSearch checked by: Anna O’Malley, Medical StudentInstitution: University of Manchester, Manchester, UKA short-cut review was carried out to establish whether focused ultrasound scanning can detect peritoneal fluid in pregnant patients suffering blunt abdominal trauma. Three papers presented evidence addressing the clinical question. The author, date and country of publication, patient group studied, study type, relevant outcomes, results and study weaknesses of these papers are shown in table 1. The clinical bottom line is that although focused ultrasound scanning can detect peritoneal free fluid … ER -