Key result
Rapid ultrasound protocols such as BLUE, FAST, RUSH, and CAUSE provide essential, time-saving, and non-invasive diagnostic information for critically ill patients.
Focus assessed ultrasound protocols, such as FAST, are standard of care and provide essential information for evaluating critically ill and trauma patients.
Supports consideration of expanded focused ultrasound protocols in ED/ICU; leaves open rigorous validation of non-FAST applications.
The variety of focus assessed ultrasound applications and protocols in emergency department and intensive care unit setting is growing. Focus assessed protocols can provide essential information about critically ill patient. It is now the standard of care to perform focused assessment using sonography for trauma - FAST early in the evaluation of trauma patient. Other focus assessed protocols can prove to be useful as well as FAST.
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Macas et al. (2015) conducted a review in Critical illness and trauma. Rapid ultrasound protocols (BLUE, FAST, RUSH, CAUSE, Optic nerve US) was evaluated. Rapid ultrasound protocols such as BLUE, FAST, RUSH, and CAUSE provide essential, time-saving, and non-invasive diagnostic information for critically ill patients.
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