Emergency Medicine Resident-Driven Point of Care Ultrasound for Suspected Shoulder Dislocation.

CONCLUSIONS: EM resident physicians, with no previous training in shoulder US imaging, exposed to a brief in-service musculoskeletal education intervention, were able to diagnose shoulder dislocations via POCUS with high sensitivity and specificity. Shoulder US for dislocation should be a core component in EM training. PMID: 31796968 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Southern Medical Journal - Category: General Medicine Tags: South Med J Source Type: research