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  2. Focused assessment with sonography for trauma - Wikipedia

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    Focused assessment with sonography in trauma (commonly abbreviated as FAST) is a rapid bedside ultrasound examination performed by surgeons, emergency physicians, and paramedics as a screening test for blood around the heart (pericardial effusion) or abdominal organs (hemoperitoneum) after trauma.

  3. Medical ultrasound - Wikipedia

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    Medical ultrasound includes diagnostic techniques (mainly imaging techniques) using ultrasound, as well as therapeutic applications of ultrasound. In diagnosis, it is used to create an image of internal body structures such as tendons, muscles, joints, blood vessels, and internal organs, to measure some characteristics (e.g., distances and velocities) or to generate an informative audible sound.

  4. Emergency ultrasound - Wikipedia

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    A portable ultrasound machine used in the prehospital setting. Emergency ultrasound is used to quickly diagnose a limited set of injuries or pathologic conditions, [4] specifically those where conventional diagnostic methods would either take too long or would introduce greater risk to a person (either by transporting the person away from the most closely monitored setting, or exposing them to ...

  5. Point-of-care testing - Wikipedia

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    Lab-on-a-chip technologies are one of the main drivers of point-of-care testing, especially in the field of infectious disease diagnosis. These technologies enable different bioassays such as microbiological culture, [7] PCR, ELISA to be used at the point of care.

  6. Cardiac arrest - Wikipedia

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    Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a tool that can be used to examine the movement of the heart and its force of contraction at the patient's bedside. [66] POCUS can accurately diagnose cardiac arrest in hospital settings, as well as visualize cardiac wall motion contractions. [66]

  7. Pre-hospital ultrasound - Wikipedia

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    Prehospital ultrasound is the specialized application of ultrasound by physicians and other [1] emergency medical services [2] (EMS) to guide immediate care and treatment procedures. [3] Like conventional ultrasound, it is a device that produces cyclic sound pressure to penetrate a medium (different body tissues) and reveal details about the ...

  8. Knee injury sidelines Zeigler for No. 8 Tennessee against No ...

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    Tennessee senior point guard Zakai Zeigler will see his streak of 51 consecutive starts end Saturday when the No. 8 Volunteers take on No. 5 Florida. Zeigler sustained a right knee injury late in ...

  9. Sonographic Murphy sign - Wikipedia

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    A Sonographic Murphy sign is a finding when performing diagnostic medical sonography.It is different from the Murphy sign found on physical examination, but both signs are associated with cholecystitis [1] When the sonographer presses directly over the gallbladder, and the patient expresses pain, more than when the sonographer presses anywhere else, this is said to be a positive sonographic ...