Survey on the use of point-of-care ultrasound detection in 300 emergency departments of tertiary hospital in China in 2018

• Published in: Zhonghua wei zhong bing ji jiu yi xue Vol. 31; no. 4; p. 484
• Main Authors: Zhang, Qiubin, Xu, Jun, Zhu, Huadong, Yu, Xuezhong
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Chinese
• Published: China 01.04.2019
• Subjects: China; Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data; Health Care Surveys; Humans; Point-of-Care Systems - statistics & numerical data; Tertiary Care Centers; Ultrasonography - statistics & numerical data; China
• ISSN: 2095-4352
• DOI: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.2095-4352.2019.04.022

To investigate the possession of ultrasound equipment and use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in emergency department of tertiary hospitals in China to figure out the present condition of POCUS in the emergency department. Questionnaire survey was performed through the internet, which included equipment possession, usage, and the sterile technique of the probe in the emergency department of tertiary hospitals. Between September and December in 2018, a total of 2 994 questionnaires link was clicked, and 718 survey responses were collected. After removing duplicated and non-tertiary hospitals questionnaires, the final questionnaire survey covered 300 tertiary hospitals, of which 250 were tertiary A hospitals (83.3%). The number of emergency department which own bedside ultrasound machine was 173 (57.7%), 40.6% (122) of the departments had only one ultrasonic machine. The main sources of equipment were new bought machines (119, 68.8%), given (38, 22.0%) or rented old machines from the ultrasound department (