Guidance for performance, utilization, and education of cardiac and lung point-of-care ultrasonography from the Japanese Society of Echocardiography

• Published in: Journal of Echocardiography Vol. 22; no. 3; pp. 113 - 151
• Main Authors: Yamada, Hirotsugu, Ohara, Takahiro, Abe, Yukio, Iwano, Hiroyuki, Onishi, Tetsuari, Katabami, Kenichi, Takigiku, Kiyohiro, Tada, Akira, Tanigushi, Hayato, Mihara, Hirotsugu, Yamamoto, Takeshi, Maeda, Ken, Wada, Yasuaki
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore Springer Science and Business Media LLC 01.09.2024; Springer Nature Singapore
• Subjects: Cardiology; East Asian People; Echocardiography - methods; Humans; Imaging; Japan; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Point-of-Care Systems; Radiology; Review Article; Societies, Medical; Ultrasound; Japan

In recent years, bedside ultrasound examinations have been used in many clinical departments and are called point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Regarding POCUS in the cardiac field, a protocol called focus (focused) cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) has been developed in Europe and the United States, is bein...