• Ignacio Manuel Sánchez Barrancos, Tomás Vegas Jiménez, Alonso Roca Rafael R Especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Miembro del Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Cen, Daniel Domínguez Tristancho, Francisco José Guerrero García, María Del Carmen Rico López, and Vicente Fernández Rodríguez.
• Especialista en Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Miembro del Grupo de Trabajo de Ecografía, Sociedad Española de Medicina Familiar y Comunitaria; Consultorio local de Membrilla, Centro de Salud Manzanares 2, Gerencia de Atención Integrada de Manzanares, Ciudad Real, España. Electronic address: ignaciomsb@telefonica.net.
• Aten Primaria. 2018 May 1; 50 (5): 306-315.

AbstractUltrasound is a safe and reliable way to increase diagnosis capabilities, as well as an improving and speed up method for taking decisions for healthcare professionals of every medical specialty. Family doctor, who must be ready to address all kind of health problems for his patients, is the key person to incorporate this tool to his daily activity, acquiring the best managing skill, unknown nowadays, being quite large the clinical situations in the day by day practice, in which he can obtain benefit in a reliable and effective way. Due to this practice is explorer dependent, it's needed to assure the best competence of the professional who practice it, and define the benefits and potential risks its use can create, as well as its application scenarios, in order to avoid unnecessary explorations and minimize opportunity costs that this activity can add to a currently saturated agenda. This work pretends to summarize the current state of abdominal point of care ultrasound, and its utility for the family doctor, in those scenarios that can be potentially reliable and effective.Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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