"The Point of Care’’ — IS the PATIENT

In the April edition of the Journal of The American Society of Echocardiography, Dr Susan E. Wiegers, a cardiologist and the president of the society, published the attached (short) statement - strongly supporting Point Of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). A few quotes say it all:

• "There is no denying that if I were to suffer a sudden hemodynamic collapse and would wind up in an emergency department, I would want it to be one in which the emergency physicians were fully trained in POCUS (point of care ultrasound) and knew how to apply it to patient care”.
• "I see POCUS as part of the continuum of care”. 
• "If our goal is to ensure ‘‘the right test at the right time’’ then we can all agree that ‘‘The Point of Care’’—IS the PATIENT". 
  

Point Of Care US is no longer the future. It is the present, and is a core component of Emergency Medicine mastery. It is exciting to see such a formal endorsement in an echocardiography journal. 

Click here to download (open access): http://www.onlinejase.com/article/S0894-7317(16)00090-0/pdf

Danny

Dr Danny Ben-Eli, BSc, MD, FACEM