Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
34741469
OBJECTIVE: Pediatric focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) is a sequence of ultrasound views rapidly performed by clinicians to diagnose hemorrhage. A technical limitation of FAST is the lack of expertise to consistently acquire all re...
Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
35770928
OBJECTIVES: To determine the feasibility of using a deep learning (DL) algorithm to assess the quality of focused assessment with sonography in trauma (FAST) exams.
Abdominal ultrasonography has become an integral component of the evaluation of trauma patients. Internal hemorrhage can be rapidly diagnosed by finding free fluid with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and expedite decisions to perform lifesaving int...
The journal of trauma and acute care surgery
39327643
BACKGROUND: Current tools to review focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) images for quality have poorly defined grading criteria or are developed to grade the skills of the sonographer and not the examination. The purpose of this study is t...