Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings

Autor: Beam, Michelle, Abdull Wahab, Shaik Farid, Ramos, Mena
Zdroj: Medical Clinics of North America; 20240101, Issue: Preprints
Abstrakt: Point-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.
Databáze: Supplemental Index