Review

Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services

Volume: 75 Number: 1 June 30, 2022
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Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services

Abstract

Ultrasonography (US) technology, which is currently used to facilitate the diagnosis and treatment of myriad conditions, was introduced into the field of medicine in 1940s. US has been increasingly spreading to nearly all branches of medicine in proportion to the developments in US technology. Therefore, pre-hospital emergency healthcare providers routinely use small size portable devices, even in ambulances, during the transfer of patients from the field to the hospital, which reduces the diagnosis and triage time of the patients and increases the survival rates relatively. However, due to the lack of necessary training activities, proper use of US devices constitutes a professional challenge for pre-hospital emergency healthcare providers. Although there are some in-service training programs targeting the use of US, a more functional and ideal approach should be to integrate both the theoretical and practical knowledge pertaining to US into the educational curricula of the related departments in the universities. A possible program should be mainly pragmatic by focusing on the life-threatening conditions in the pre-hospital area.

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Ethical Statement

Ethics Peer-review: Externally peer-reviewed.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Emergency Medicine

Journal Section

Review

Publication Date

June 30, 2022

Submission Date

January 21, 2021

Acceptance Date

September 16, 2021

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Volume: 75 Number: 1

APA
Gülünay, B., & Günsoy, E. (2022). Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası, 75(1), 1-7. https://doi.org/10.4274/atfm.galenos.2021.53825
AMA
1.Gülünay B, Günsoy E. Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası. 2022;75(1):1-7. doi:10.4274/atfm.galenos.2021.53825
Chicago
Gülünay, Behnan, and Ertuğ Günsoy. 2022. “Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services”. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası 75 (1): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.4274/atfm.galenos.2021.53825.
EndNote
Gülünay B, Günsoy E (June 1, 2022) Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası 75 1 1–7.
IEEE
[1]B. Gülünay and E. Günsoy, “Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services”, Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 1–7, June 2022, doi: 10.4274/atfm.galenos.2021.53825.
ISNAD
Gülünay, Behnan - Günsoy, Ertuğ. “Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services”. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası 75/1 (June 1, 2022): 1-7. https://doi.org/10.4274/atfm.galenos.2021.53825.
JAMA
1.Gülünay B, Günsoy E. Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası. 2022;75:1–7.
MLA
Gülünay, Behnan, and Ertuğ Günsoy. “Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services”. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası, vol. 75, no. 1, June 2022, pp. 1-7, doi:10.4274/atfm.galenos.2021.53825.
Vancouver
1.Behnan Gülünay, Ertuğ Günsoy. Ultrasonography Use in Emergency Health Services. Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası. 2022 Jun. 1;75(1):1-7. doi:10.4274/atfm.galenos.2021.53825

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