Paediatric emergency medicine point-of-care ultrasound: Fundamental or fad?
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Snelling, Peter J
Tessaro, Mark
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2017
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The traditional practice of medicineis increasingly challenged by disrup-tive technologies. One such tool inpaediatric emergency medicine ispoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS),now well established in North Amer-ica but still emerging throughoutAustralasia.1,2Like any new trend,the adoption of POCUS has both itsadvocates and sceptics given that acomprehensive ultrasound service isreadily available in most depart-ments. This article will examine boththe current barriers and future direc-tions of POCUS in paediatric emer-gency medicine.The traditional practice of medicineis increasingly challenged by disrup-tive technologies. One such tool inpaediatric emergency medicine ispoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS),now well established in North Amer-ica but still emerging throughoutAustralasia.1,2Like any new trend,the adoption of POCUS has both itsadvocates and sceptics given that acomprehensive ultrasound service isreadily available in most depart-ments. This article will examine boththe current barriers and future direc-tions of POCUS in paediatric emer-gency medicine.
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Journal Title
Emergency Medicine Australasia
Volume
29
Issue
5
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© 2017 ACEM and ASEM. This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Paediatric emergency medicine point‐of‐care ultrasound: Fundamental or fad?, Emergency Medicine Australasia, 2017, 29 (5), pp. 486-489, which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1742-6723.12848. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving (http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-828039.html)
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Clinical sciences
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Emergency Medicine
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