• Med. Clin. North Am. · Jan 2025

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    Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings.

    • Michelle Beam, Abdull WahabShaik FaridSFDepartment of Emergency Medicine, University Science Malaysia, Trauma Center, Hospital University Science Malaysia, 4th Floor, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan 16150, Malaysia., and Mena Ramos.
    • Department of General Internal Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, 3181 Southwest Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland, OR 97239-3098, USA. Electronic address: beam@ohsu.edu.
    • Med. Clin. North Am. 2025 Jan 1; 109 (1): 313324313-324.

    AbstractPoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) bridges diagnostic gaps across the continuum of care worldwide and is a particularly potent tool in resource-limited settings (RLS). To capture the scope of its current impact in RLS, this narrative review of POCUS use in public health, primary care, outpatient specialty, pre-hospital, and palliative care settings discusses its use in reducing diagnostic health care inequities. Disease-specific protocols, longitudinal training, quality assurance, and task shifting are key to robust expansion of POCUS in RLS.Copyright © 2024 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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