Hirotsugu Yamada, Takahiro Ohara, Yukio Abe, Hiroyuki Iwano, Tetsuari Onishi, Kenichi Katabami, Kiyohiro Takigiku, Akira Tada, Hayato Tanigushi, Hirotsugu Mihara, Takeshi Yamamoto, Ken Maeda, Yasuaki Wada
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 being used clinically, and an educational syllabus has been created. According to them, FoCUS is defined as a point-of-care cardiac ultrasound examination using standardized limited sections and protocols. FoCUS is primarily intended to be performed by non-cardiologists, and in order to avoid making mistakes in judgment, it is important to be familiar with its limitations and it is necessary to understand pathological conditions that can only be diagnosed using conventional comprehensive echocardiography...
May 9, 2024: Journal of Echocardiography