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Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST); Focused Multiorgan Bedside Ultrasound
Indications:
- routinely used in the evaluation of trauma patients
- useful in patients with nontraumatic hypotension
- use in the emergency department for children with blunt abdominal trauma doesn't seem to improve clinical care or lower costs [2]
General
ultrasound (US, UTZ)
References
- Journal Watch. May 7, 2013
kpenig KL
Massachusetts Medical Society
http://www.jwatch.org
- Volpicelli G et al.
Point-of-care multiorgan ultrasonography for the evaluation of
undifferentiated hypotension in the emergency department.
Intensive Care Med 2013 Apr 13
PMID: 23584471
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00134-013-2919-7
- Holmes JF, Kelley KM, Wootton-Gorges SL
Effect of Abdominal Ultrasound on Clinical Care, Outcomes, and
Resource Use Among Children With Blunt Torso Trauma. A
Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA. 2017;317(22):2290-2296
PMID: 28609532
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2631528
- Kessler DO
Abdominal Ultrasound for Pediatric Blunt Trauma. FAST Is Not
Always Better.
JAMA. 2017;317(22):2283-2285
PMID: 28609517
http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2631512