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Applied Evidence
Point-of-care ultrasound: Coming soon to primary care?
Palmetto Health Family Medicine Residency, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia (Dr. Bornemann); Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine (Drs. Jayasekera, Bergman, and Ramos); Department of Family Medicine, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison (Dr. Gerhart) paul.bornemann@uscmed.sc.edu
The authors reported no potential conflict of interest relevant to this article.
The potential applications of POCUS in family medicine are numerous and have been reviewed in several recent publications.12,13 In this article, we will review the evidence for the use of POCUS in 4 areas: the cardiovascular exam (FIGURES 1 and 2), the lung exam (FIGURES 3-6), the screening exam for AAAs (FIGURE 7), and the evaluation for DVT (FIGURES 8 and9). (Obstetric and musculoskeletal applications have been sufficiently covered elsewhere.14-17) For all of these applications, POCUS is safe, accurate, and beneficial and can be performed with a relatively small amount of training by non-radiology specialists, including FPs (TABLEs 1 and 2).