[Usefulness and reliability of point of care ultrasound in Family Medicine: Focused ultrasound in neck and emergency].

[Usefulness and reliability of point of care ultrasound in Family Medicine: Focused ultrasound in neck and emergency]. Aten Primaria. 2019 May 14;: Authors: Tarrazo Suárez JA, Morales Cano JM, Pujol Salud J, Sánchez Barrancos IM, Diaz Sánchez S, Conangla Ferrín L Abstract Ultrasound is a very useful tool for diagnosis and to handle a great sort of daily affaires. The family Doctor, as general specialist, must be competent to carry out almost all kind of wealthy situations that can potentially affect to his population. Because of that, with this tool in his hand, the Doctor can get a higher level of quality in the efficiency of the assistant procedure. This is the last paper of a serial dedicated to show the different applications of clinical ultrasound, in which most of them have been reviewed, such as abdominal, nephrourological, musculoskeletal, cardiac or pulmonary focused ultrasound. We want to finalize with scenarios like neck pathology or applications in urgencies in which we can provide the definitive data to get the right diagnosis orientation, the clinic use, or even patient live, such as the patient under deep vein thrombosis in lower members, thoracoabdominal trauma, hemodynamic compromise situation or cardiac arrest. PMID: 31101376 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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