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Jaspers, N., Holzapfel, B. and Kasper, P. (2019). Abdominal ultrasound in emergency and critical care medicine. Med. Klin.-Intensivmed Notfallmed., 114 (6). S. 509 - 519. HEIDELBERG: SPRINGER HEIDELBERG. ISSN 2193-6226

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Abstract

Abdominal ultrasound is established as an important and low-risk diagnostic procedure in emergency and intensive care medicine that allows rapid and precise diagnosis in symptomatic patients and helps to evaluate which further diagnostic steps are needed. Abdominal ultrasound should be performed as the initial imaging modality in all symptomatic patients in an emergency or intensive care unit and can be used with great accuracy to detect the presence of various abdominal pathologies, such as abdominal aortic aneurysm, abscess, ureterolithiasis or free fluid. Furthermore ultrasound represents the imaging modality of choice for guiding many diagnostic and interventional percutaneous procedures in emergency and intensive care medicine and can be used e.g. to drain pleural fluid or abdominal abscesses. Contrast-enhanced ultrasound (CEUS) can additionally be performed to provide a more reliable assessment of solid organ injuries and has the potential to detect parenchymal lesions or active bleeding from a variety of traumatic origins. Abdominal ultrasound is aimed to integrate rapidly detectable sonographic findings into the clinical context. To ensure required standards, regular training is necessary and it is important to understand methodological limitations.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Jaspers, N. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Holzapfel, B. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Kasper, P. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-142780
DOI:	10.1007/s00063-019-0551-1
Journal or Publication Title:	Med. Klin.-Intensivmed Notfallmed.
Volume:	114
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 509 - 519
Date:	2019
Publisher:	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
Place of Publication:	HEIDELBERG
ISSN:	2193-6226
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language INTENSIVE-CARE; SONOGRAPHY; TRAUMA; TIME Multiple languages Medicine, General & Internal Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/14278