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The effect of vessel depth, diameter, and location on ultrasound guided peripheral guided peripheral intravenous catheter longevity.
Introduction:Background Patients with difficult intravenous access (DIVA) present an ongoing challenge to providing emergency care and resuscitation. Of the 116.8 million ED visits in 2007 in the...
Abscess Incision and Drainage With or Without Ultrasonography: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Study objective: We hypothesize that clinical failure rates will be lower in patients treated with point-of-care ultrasonography and incision and drainage compared with those who undergo incision...
Emergency Department Right Upper Quadrant Ultrasound Is Associated with a Reduced Time toDiagnosis and Treatment of Ruptured Ectopic Pregnancies
Abstract. Objective: To determine whether the time to diagnosis and treatment of patients with ruptured ectopic pregnancy is significantly less for patients who had emergency department (ED)...
Randomized, controlled trial of immediate versus delayed goal-directed ultrasound to identify the cause of non traumatic hypotension in emergency department patients.
Abstract Objective: We examined a physician-performed, goal-directed ultrasound protocol for the emergency department management of nontraumatic, symptomatic, undifferentiated hypotension....
Use of Ultrasound Guidance for Central Venous Catheter Placement: Survey From the American Board of Emergency Medicine Longitudinal Study of Emergency Physicians
Abstract Objectives: The objective was to survey practicing emergency physicians (EPs) across the United Statesregarding the frequency of using ultrasound (US) guidance in central venous catheter...
Ultrasound-guided central venous catheter placement: a structured review and recommendations for clinical practice
Abstract: The use of ultrasound (US) has been proposed to reduce the number of complications and to increase the safety and quality of central venous catheter (CVC) placement. In this review, we...