ArticleWorld journal of orthopedics2010
Portable ultrasonography in mass casualty incidents: The CAVEAT examination.
Article in World journal of orthopedics, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06672315 (Transesophageal Echocardiography in Pre-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients; TAPCAP), which is not on this map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Transesophageal Echocardiography in Pre-hospital Cardiac Arrest Patients; TAPCAP
Who cites it
24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 61 citations in OpenAlex.
- Focused Assessment Sonography for Trauma (FAST) training: a systematic review.World journal of surgery · 2014Pooled it
- Article
- Performance and development trends of ultrasound diagnostic systems in military settings: a review.The ultrasound journal · 2025Review
- The diagnostic value of thoracic ultrasound in thoracic surgery consultations: a new tool in pleural effusion decision-making.Kardiochirurgia i torakochirurgia polska = Polish journal of cardio-thoracic surgery · 2025Article
- Progress in the Application of Portable Ultrasound Combined with Artificial Intelligence in Pre-Hospital Emergency and Disaster Sites.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Diagnostic options for blunt abdominal trauma.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2022Review
- Performance of a Handheld Ultrasound Device to Assess Articular and Periarticular Pathologies in Patients with Inflammatory Arthritis.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- ESR statement on portable ultrasound devices.Insights into imaging · 2019Article
- ABCDE of prehospital ultrasonography: a narrative review.Critical ultrasound journal · 2018Review
- Chest Ultrasonography in Modern Day Extreme Settings: From Military Setting and Natural Disasters to Space Flights and Extreme Sports.Canadian respiratory journal · 2018Review
- Ultrasound diagnosis of fractures in mass casualty incidents.World journal of orthopedics · 2017Article
- From FAST to E-FAST: an overview of the evolution of ultrasound-based traumatic injury assessment.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2016Review
- Portable ultrasound in disaster triage: a focused review.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2016Review
- Advancing clinician-performed sonography in the twenty-first century: building on the rich legacy of the twentieth century pioneers.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2016Article
- An overview of point-of-care ultrasound for soft tissue and musculoskeletal applications in the emergency department.Journal of intensive care · 2016Review
- Clinician-performed ultrasound in hemodynamic and cardiac assessment: a synopsis of current indications and limitations.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2015Review
- Modern sonology and the bedside practitioner: evolution of ultrasound from curious novelty to essential clinical tool.European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society · 2015Article
- Academic College of Emergency Experts in India's INDO-US Joint Working Group and OPUS12 Foundation Consensus Statement on Creating A Coordinated, Multi-Disciplinary, Patient-Centered, Global Point-of-Care Biomarker Discovery Network.International journal of critical illness and injury science · 2014Article
- Wilderness medicine.World journal of emergency medicine · 2014Review
- Wind disasters: A comprehensive review of current management strategies.International journal of critical illness and injury science · 2013Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Ultrasonography used by practicing clinicians has been shown to be of utility in the evaluation of time-sensitive and critical illnesses in a range of environments, including pre-hospital triage, emergency department, and critical care settings. The increasing availability of light-weight, robust, user-friendly, and low-cost portable ultrasound equipment is particularly suited for use in the physically and temporally challenging environment of a multiple casualty incident (MCI). Currently established ultrasound applications used to identify potentially lethal thoracic or abdominal conditions offer a base upon which rapid, focused protocols using hand-carried emergency ultrasonography could be developed. Following a detailed review of the current use of portable ultrasonography in military and civilian MCI settings, we propose a protocol for sonographic evaluation of the chest, abdomen, vena cava, and extremities for acute triage. The protocol is two-tiered, based on the urgency and technical difficulty of the sonographic examination. In addition to utilization of well-established bedside abdominal and thoracic sonography applications, this protocol incorporates extremity assessment for long-bone fractures. Studies of the proposed protocol will need to be conducted to determine its utility in simulated and actual MCI settings.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.