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Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma Examination

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2015
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study was to determine the frequency and predominant location of isolated free fluid in the left upper quadrant (LUQ) on focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examinations of adult patients with trauma presenting to the emergency department.MethodsWe conducted a retrospective review of adult patients with ...
Kathleen M, O'Brien, Lori A, Stolz, Richard, Amini, Austin, Gross, Uwe, Stolz, Srikar, Adhikari   +5 more
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FOCUSED ASSESSMENT WITH SONOGRAPHY FOR TRAUMA CORRELATED WITH INTRAOPERATIVE FINDINGS AMONG PATIENTS WITH BLUNT ABDOMINAL TRAUMA.

American Journal of Diagnostic Imaging
. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess the correlation between FAST examination with intraoperative findings among patients with blunt abdominal trauma.
Peter Mhina, Ester Lazaro, Felista Uisso, Crispin Moshi   +3 more
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Focused assessment with sonography for trauma in children after blunt abdominal trauma

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2017
The utility of focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) in children is poorly defined with considerable practice variation. Our purpose was to investigate the role of FAST for intra-abdominal injury (IAI) and IAI requiring acute intervention (IAI-I) in children after blunt abdominal trauma (BAT).We prospectively enrolled children younger ...
Bennett W, Calder, Adam M, Vogel, Jingwen, Zhang, Patrick D, Mauldin, Eunice Y, Huang, Kate B, Savoie, Matthew T, Santore, KuoJen, Tsao, Tiffany G, Ostovar-Kermani, Richard A, Falcone, M Sidney, Dassinger, John, Recicar, Jeffrey H, Haynes, Martin L, Blakely, Robert T, Russell, Bindi J, Naik-Mathuria, Shawn D, St Peter, David P, Mooney, Chinwendu, Onwubiko, Jeffrey S, Upperman, Jessica A, Zagory, Christian J, Streck   +21 more
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A Potential Pitfall of Using Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma in Pediatric Trauma

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine, 2018
Prospective studies have shown sensitivities of 73% to 88% and specificities of 98% to 100% for using the focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination to identify free fluid in adult trauma patients. However, the efficacy of FAST examinations for pediatric trauma patients has not been well defined, and studies looking at diagnostic ...
Aimee, Baer Ellington, Walter, Kuhn, Matthew, Lyon   +2 more
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Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST)

Pakistan BioMedical Journal
FAST scan is a protocol of ultrasound used to evaluate patients with free intraperitoneal fluid suffering from blunt trauma to the chest and abdomen. The FAST has become the source of a great deal of attention.
Arsalna Asif Anjum, Mahnoor Aslam, Tasbeeha Asif Anjum, Urooj Tariq Kiyani   +3 more
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A quality assessment tool for focused abdominal sonography for trauma examinations using artificial intelligence

Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
The Focused Abdominal Sonography for Trauma (FAST) examination is a well-accepted diagnostic tool in the management of blunt trauma. We developed a validated tool using AI which retrospectively assesses quality of an ultrasound image for its ability to ...
John Cull, D. Morrow, Caleb Manasco, Ashley Vaughan, John Eicken, Hudson Smith   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Not so FAST? Focused assessment with sonography for trauma in paediatrics

Emergency Medicine Journal, 2009
Focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) is a routine screening tool in trauma. Limited data exist on the use of FAST in paediatric trauma. It has been suggested that the number of normal CT scans may be decreased with the use of rapid FAST, thereby reducing cost and …
M. Vaidya, H. Gill, S. Vaidya, S. Phelps, N. Edmonds   +4 more
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Extending the Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma Examination in Children

Clinical Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 2011
Across the United States, injuries from trauma are the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in children aged 19 years and younger. Over the past 2 decades, the “focused assessment with sonography for trauma” (FAST) examination has become a core application of emergency department ultrasound.
Lana M. Friedman, James W. Tsung
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Calculated Decisions: Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST)

Emergency medicine practice, 2018
Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) predicts the presence of pericardial or intra-abdominal injury after penetrating or blunt trauma.
Jennie, Kim, Morgan, Schellenberg, Kenji, Inaba   +2 more
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Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma

2022
Javier Rosario, Coben Thorn, L. Connor Nickels   +2 more
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