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FAST

  • Replaced diagnostic peritoneal lavage (DPL)
  • Emergency ultrasound training required for all emergency medicine residents since 2001

Focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST)

Morison's Pouch

ECG

130

bpm

Pelvis

2 Questions

Subxiphoid

Perispenic Space

Subxiphoid

Morison's Pouch (RUQ)

Morison's Pouch

1. Is there free fluid/blood in the abdomen?

2. Is there fluid/blood in the pericardium?

Pelvis

Transverse position (probe marker to the patient's right) on the symphysis pubis and angle toward the patient's feet

Probe almost flat on the abdomen with the marker to the patient's right and angle the probe to the patient's left shoulder.

Anterior axillary line in the seventh to ninth intercostal space

Subxiphoid

Thank You!

Perisplenic Space (LUQ)

Pelvis

Perispenic Space

Posterior axillary line in the fifth to seventh intercostal space

Noble Vicki E, Nelson Bret. Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound. Cambridge University Press. 2011.

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