Year: 2015 | Month: December | Volume 2 | Issue 4
Focused Assessment Sonography in Trauma: An Impending Screening Advancement in Trauma
Ruchika Khanna
DOI:10.5958/2394-4196.2015.00022.9
Abstract:
Trauma is one of the foremost causes of death worldwide. The increased knowledge of ultrasound in the diagnosis of life-threatening injuries leads to the development of focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST). The FAST is used the most common in trauma patients with blunt injuries. In trauma patients, evident bleeding may be seen without noticeable warning signs into the peritoneal, pleural, or pericardial spaces. The aim of bedside ultrasound in trauma is to distinguish rapidly free fluid (usually blood) in the peritoneal, pericardial, or pleural spaces. The FAST scan is used with diagnostic peritoneal lavage and computed tomography scan by experienced trauma surgeon’s team.
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