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Emergency ultrasound in the prehospital setting: the impact of environment on examination outcomes

Snaith, B.
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Hardy, M.
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Walker, Alison
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Emergency Medical Services
 Ultrasound
 Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA)
 Point-of-Care Testing
 Pre-hospital Care
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Emergency Medicine Journal
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Publications - Yorkshire Ambulance Service
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12417/707
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10.1136/emj.2010.096966
Abstract
This study aimed to compare ultrasound examinations performed within a land ambulance (stationary and moving) with those completed in a simulated emergency department (ED) to determine the feasibility of undertaking ultrasound examinations within the UK prehospital care environment. The findings suggest that abdominal aortic aneurysm and extended focused assessment with sonography in trauma emergency ultrasound examinations can be performed in the stationary or moving land ambulance environment to a standard consistent with those performed in the hospital ED. https://emj.bmj.com/content/emermed/28/12/1063.full.pdf This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/emj.2010.096966
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