ReviewJournal of medical ultrasonics (2001)2022
Cardiac and vascular point-of-care ultrasound: current situation, problems, and future prospects.
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- Clinical application of point-of-care ultrasound during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- [Sternal Fracture as a Risk Factor for Blunt Cardiac Injury].Acta chirurgiae orthopaedicae et traumatologiae Cechoslovaca · 2026Review
- Artificial Intelligence-Enhanced Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Prospective Single-Arm Study.Mayo Clinic proceedings. Digital health · 2026Article
- Can FoCUS Speed Up the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome in the Emergency Department?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
- Risk prediction and prevention in patients with advanced subclinical atherosclerosis.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2026Review
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- Performance of the Cardiovascular Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Exam by Internal Medicine Residents.POCUS journal · 2025Article
- Accuracy of focused cardiac ultrasound interpretation among emergency and critical care medicine residents in Ethiopia: A multi-center cross-sectional study.African journal of emergency medicine : Revue africaine de la medecine d'urgence · 2024Article
- Critical Advances for Democratizing Ultrasound Diagnostics in Human and Veterinary Medicine.Annual review of biomedical engineering · 2024Review
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- Establishing a Novel Diagnostic Framework Using Handheld Point-of-Care Focused-Echocardiography (HoPE) for Acute Left-Sided Cardiac Valve Emergencies: A Bayesian Approach for Emergency Physicians in Resource-Limited Settings.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Point-of-care ultrasound-guided submucosal paclitaxel injection in tracheal stenosis model.Journal of translational internal medicine · 2023Article
- The Role of Hand-Held Cardiac Ultrasound in Patients with COVID-19.Biomedicines · 2023Review
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Abstract
Although clinical application of ultrasound to the heart has a history of about 80 years, its big turning point was the emergence of a portable ultrasound diagnostic machine. As a result, the place, where echocardiography is performed widely spread outside the examination room, and the people who perform echocardiography have also greatly increased. Emergency physicians, anesthesiologists, and primary care physicians became interested in echocardiography and started using it. Such ultrasound examinations performed by a doctor for assessment of disease condition, management, or guidance of treatment at bedside has been called point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Cardiac POCUS is divided into a focused cardiac ultrasound examination (FoCUS) and limited echocardiography. The former is performed by non-experts in echocardiography, such as emergency physicians and anesthesiologists, whereas the latter is usually performed by cardiologists who are experts in echocardiography. FoCUS has an established protocol and evaluation method, and evidence to prove its effectiveness is accumulating. In addition, the COVID-19 outbreak reaffirmed the importance of POCUS. Although FoCUS is becoming popular in Japan, an educational program has not been established, and discussion on how to educate medical students and residents will be necessary. Even if POCUS in cardiovascular medicine becomes widespread, auscultation will still be necessary. Rather, adding cardiac and vascular POCUS to inspection, palpation, and auscultation in the flow of physical examinations will benefit patients greatly.
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