Usefulness and reliability of abdominal clinical ultrasound in family medicine (1) : Liver, biliary tract and pancreas

Copyright © 2018 The Authors. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved..

Ultrasound is a safe and reliable way to increase diagnosis capabilities, as well as an improving and speed up method for taking decisions for healthcare professionals of every medical specialty. Family doctor, who must be ready to address all kind of health problems for his patients, is the key person to incorporate this tool to his daily activity, acquiring the best managing skill, unknown nowadays, being quite large the clinical situations in the day by day practice, in which he can obtain benefit in a reliable and effective way. Due to this practice is explorer dependent, it's needed to assure the best competence of the professional who practice it, and define the benefits and potential risks its use can create, as well as its application scenarios, in order to avoid unnecessary explorations and minimize opportunity costs that this activity can add to a currently saturated agenda. This work pretends to summarize the current state of abdominal point of care ultrasound, and its utility for the family doctor, in those scenarios that can be potentially reliable and effective.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

Enthalten in:

Atencion primaria - 50(2018), 5 vom: 07. Mai, Seite 306-315

Sprache:

Spanisch

Weiterer Titel:

Utilidad y fiabilidad de la ecografía clínica abdominal en medicina familiar (1): hígado, vías biliares y páncreas

Beteiligte Personen:

Sánchez Barrancos, Ignacio Manuel [VerfasserIn]
Vegas Jiménez, Tomás [VerfasserIn]
Alonso Roca, Rafael [VerfasserIn]
Domínguez Tristancho, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Guerrero García, Francisco José [VerfasserIn]
Rico López, María Del Carmen [VerfasserIn]
Fernández Rodríguez, Vicente [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Ecografía clínica
Family practice
Fiabilidad
Journal Article
Medicina familiar
Point of care ultrasound
Reliability
Usefulness
Utilidad

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Date Completed 07.10.2019

Date Revised 21.11.2019

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.aprim.2018.02.004

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM282547193