Articles: emergency-medicine.
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Comparative Study
Prospective analysis of a rapid trauma ultrasound examination performed by emergency physicians.
The objective of this prospective study was to determine the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of the rapid trauma ultrasound examination, performed by emergency physicians, for detecting free peritoneal and thoracic fluid in patients presenting to a level I trauma center with major blunt or penetrating torso trauma. Emergency medicine residents and faculty were trained to perform an ultrasound examination of the torso evaluating for free intraperitoneal, retroperitoneal, pleural, and pericardial fluid. ⋯ Ultrasonography can serve as an accurate diagnostic adjunct in detecting free peritoneal and thoracic fluid in trauma patients. Appropriately trained emergency physicians can accurately perform and interpret these trauma ultrasound examinations.
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Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther · Jun 1995
[Education of the medical student in first aid, emergency and disaster medicine--the Graz model].
In Austria emergency and disaster medicine is a young interdisciplinary subject. It is only a borderline discipline encompassing different medical subjects and was subdivided into emergency medicine for medical doctors only and first-aid for lay people and emergency technicians. ⋯ According to the three steps of the study lectures and practices, all parts of first-aid, emergency and disaster medicine were offered. In spite of the short time since this has been running, we found a good acceptance and we hope to increase the interest evinced by medical students in our training programme.