POCUS as part of the medical curriculum – is this the year?

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Abstract

Echocardiography allows real-time examination of cardiac function and structure. The information obtained includes diagnosing patient pathology, guiding clinical management, and monitoring treatment results. A detailed diagnostic echocardiography examination on a stable patient is usually performed during working hours by an echosonographer in the echocardiography suite. Given the available resources, it is however impractical to expect cardiologists to provide a reliable point-of-care (POC) transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) service at all hours.

Author Biographies

EW Turton, University of the Free State

Department of Anaesthesiology, University of the Free State, South Africa

M Gibbs, University of Cape Town

Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

E Neethling, University of Toronto

Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, University of Toronto, Canada

J Swanevelder, University of Cape Town

Department of Anaesthesia and Perioperative Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Published

2023-03-01

Issue

Vol. 29 No. 1 (2023)

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Guest Editorial

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