Transport and use of point-of-care ultrasound by a disaster medical assistance team.
Prehospital and Disaster Medicine · 2009-01-01 · Case report
Abstract
The role of ultrasound in disaster medicine has not been not well established. This report describes the transport and use of point-of-care ultrasound by a Disaster Medical Assistance Team (DMAT) responding to a mass-casualty incident due to a cyclone. Ultrasound-competent physicians on the team were able to use portable ultrasound on cyclone casualties to exclude intra-abdominal hemorrhage, pericardial fluid, pneumothoraces, and hemothoraces. Information obtained using ultrasound made initial patient management, and subsequent decisions regarding triage for transport safer and based on more detailed clinical information.
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Low- and middle-income settings · Point-of-care ultrasound · Prehospital physicians
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