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2017, Emergency Medicine Clinics of North AmericaCitation Excerpt :Decisions regarding patient management and transport were made, and clinical management was changed in a large percentage of patients following POCUS.9,28 The utility of the FAST examination after the bombings in Madrid, London, Lebanon, and Boston have been reported.29–34 The report from the Boston Marathon bombing describes how the volume of critically wounded and unregistered patients overwhelmed standard radiography processes, causing an emergency physician to go “bed to bed,” performing eFAST exams on each patient and leaving the hand-written results taped to the gurneys; 24% of these ultrasound-triaged patients received immediate operative intervention.
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