ReviewInternal and emergency medicine2020
Point of care ultrasonography from the emergency department to the internal medicine ward: current trends and perspectives.
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22 citing papers in PubMed, 52 citations in OpenAlex.
- A serious video game for teaching basic point-of-care echocardiography skills: a non-inferiority trial.BMC medical education · 2026Trial
- Heart and lung point-of-care ultrasonography tutoring in internal medicine: a randomized controlled trial.Journal of ultrasound · 2025Trial
- Methods for teaching postgraduate point-of-care ultrasonography: a systematic review.Internal and emergency medicine · 2026Review
- Effects of point-of-care ultrasonography on clinical decisions for suspected hypervolemia: a cross-sectional study of two independent samples.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2026Article
- Imaging of the Equine Abdomen Using Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)-A Resource for the Equine Practitioner.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Review
- Emergency Department Disposition and Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Biliary Disease: Propensity-Weighted Cohort Study.The western journal of emergency medicine · 2025Article
- CA125 as a prognostic biomarker in acute heart failure; comment.Internal and emergency medicine · 2025Article
- Critical care ultrasound: development, evolution, current and evolving clinical concepts in critical care medicine.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Review
- A Role for Clinical Anatomists in Ultrasound Education.Medical science educator · 2024Article
- Imaging Informatics Education in Clinical Informatics Programs: Perspective from Imaging and Clinical Informatics Professionals.Applied clinical informatics · 2024Article
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department: Training, Perceptions, Applications, and Barriers from Different Healthcare Professionals.Journal of acute medicine · 2024Article
- World Organization of National Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners and Family Physicians (WONCA) Europe position paper on the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in primary care.Primary health care research & development · 2024Review
- Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound Training Programme: Experience from the University Hospital Hradec Králové.Emergency medicine international · 2024Review
- Utilization of point-of-care ultrasound among graduates of a 4-year longitudinal medical school ultrasound curriculum.Clinical and experimental emergency medicine · 2023Article
- Impact of focused cardiac and lung ultrasound screening performed by a junior doctor during admission to the surgical ward on patients before emergency non-cardiac surgery: A pilot prospective observational study.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2023Article
- Development and Implementation of a Semi-Automated Workflow for Point-of-Care Ultrasound Billing and Documentation Within an Electronic Health Record.Journal of digital imaging · 2023Article
- Optimizing Care for High-Risk Multiple Pregnancy with POCUS - A Case of Quadruplet Pregnancy Early Diagnosis.POCUS journal · 2023Article
- The validation of a serious game for teaching ultrasound skills.The ultrasound journal · 2022Article
- Analysis of Rural Disparities in Ultrasound Access.Cureus · 2022Article
- Confidence and use of physical examination and point-of-care ultrasonography for detection of abdominal or pleural free fluid. A cross-sectional survey.Internal and emergency medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The advent of portable devices in the early 80s has brought ultrasonography to the patient's bedside. Currently referred to as 'point of care ultrasonography' (POCUS), it has become an essential tool for clinicians. Initially developed in the emergency and critical care settings, POCUS has gained increasing importance in internal medicine wards in the last decade, with both its growing diagnostic accuracy and portability making POCUS an optimal instrument for everyday clinical assessment and procedures. There is large body of evidence to confirm POCUS' superiority when compared to clinical examination and standard X-ray imaging in a variety of clinical situations. On the contrary, only few indications, such as procedural guidance, have a proven additional benefit for patients. Since POCUS is highly user-dependent, pre- and post-graduate curricula are needed and the range of use should be clearly defined. This review focuses on trends and perspectives of POCUS in the management of diseases frequently encountered in emergency and internal medicine. In addition, questions are raised regarding the teaching and supervision of POCUS needing to be addressed in the near future.
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