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FOCUS

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Focused Cardiac Ultrasound (FOCUS)

  • Emergency ultrasound of the heart = echocardiography
  • Point-of-care echo
  • Initially for effusion
  • Use has expanded
    • Left ventricular function
    • Right ventricular strain
    • Aortic pathology
    • Inferior vena cava
    • Gross valvular pathology

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Availability of consultant performed echo

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Moore CL et al., “Ultrasound in community emergency departments in the United States: access to ultrasound performed by consultants and status of emergency physician performed ultrasound”, Ann Emerg Med 2006; 47:147-153



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Training – EPs and cardiologists

FOCUS training

“Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in the Emergent Setting: A Consensus Statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and American College of Emergency Physicians” Labovitz et al., J Am Soc Echo 2010; 23: 1225-30


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Medical students with ultrasound vs. attending cardiologists with stethoscope

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Am J Cardiol 2005;96:1002–1006


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Point of Care Echocardiography

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Lesson NameMinutes id
Case: Constipation4
151
FOCUS3 checkmark
152
Getting Started4
153
Orientation Conventions7
154
Anatomy and Windows3
155
Parasternal Long Axis4
156
Parasternal Short Axis4
157
Subxiphoid Window3
158
Subxiphoid Long Axis3
159
Apical Four Chamber3
160
Suprasternal and Summary3
161

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