Emergency medicine as a recognized medical specialty is over 40 years old, and emergency doctors have been using point-of-care ultrasound or ultrasound at the bedside for at least two decades.

"We found that patients undergoing the standard ultrasound examination spent an average of 4.51 hours in the emergency departments, while the group receiving point-of-care ultrasound spent an ...

The once-unheard-of practice of bedside ultrasound is now standard in emergency rooms nationwide as the result of the curiosity of one man, Dietrich Jehle, MD. During a tour of German hospitals in ...

4 Gallagher RA, Levy J, Vieira RL Ultrasound assistance for central venous catheter placement in a pediatric emergency department improves placement success rates. Acad Emerg Med. 2014 Sep;21(9 ...

To address one of these disparities, associate professor and emergency ultrasound faculty Dr. Elaine Situ-LaCasse is leading a study to design an educational program ...

In 2011, 95% of U.S. Emergency Departments (EDs) with a PEM fellowship program reported use of POCUS, compared to 57% in 2006 1.The first pediatric point-of-care ultrasound textbook was published ...

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - When most people think of ultrasound technology they think pregnancy and baby, but the old technology is being paired with new ideas to save lives right here in WAVE Country.

Barcelona, Spain: If doctors in hospital emergency departments are trained to carry out ultrasound on patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT), they can nearly halve the time the ...