The first in this series of five papers concerns the evaluation and management of renal
injuries. The authors of this paper come from four continents and seven countries, and they …

Trauma is the number one cause of death among Americans between the ages of 1 and 46
years, costing more than $670 billion a year. Following death related to central nervous …

Objective: We examined a physician-performed, goal-directed ultrasound protocol for the
emergency department management of nontraumatic, symptomatic, undifferentiated …

Background Point‐of‐care sonography (POCS) has emerged as the screening modality of
choice for suspected body trauma in many emergency departments worldwide. Its best …

Over the last decade, the use of portable ultrasound scanners has enhanced the concept of
point of care ultrasound (PoC-US), namely,“ultrasound performed at the bedside and …

Objectives–To review the nonradiologist use of ultrasound (US) in the setting of emergency
and critical care, the development, clinical applications, and standardization of veterinary …

Bowel and mesenteric injuries are detected in 5% of blunt abdominal trauma patients at
laparotomy. Computed tomography (CT) has been shown to be accurate for the diagnosis of …

Emergency practitioners routinely encounter patients who suffer from abdominal trauma, be
it blunt or penetrating. These injuries are often confounded by altered mental status …

BACKGROUND: During the last decade, focused assessment with sonography for trauma
increasingly has become the initial diagnostic modality of choice in trauma patients. It is still …

Objective—To establish a focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) protocol
in dogs, determine whether FAST can be performed by veterinary clinicians without …