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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

ResUS Pearl: FAST Tip for Improving your Trauma Scan

For the RUQ view, fan through several rib spaces to see the following three things:

  1) Above and below the diaphragm
        2) Morison’s Pouch
        3)The liver tip*

*Don’t forget to scan the left side of the liver/paracolic gutter. BLOOD POOLS HERE FIRST along the inferior pole of the kidney and paracolic gutter/left border of the liver.  You may need to move your probe 1 or 2 rib spaces down from the Morison’s view to see this.

References
www.sonoguide.com

Submitted by: S Shah, MD

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