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Emergency medicine

bedside trauma ultrasound that adds views of the chest for pneumothorax to the standard abdominal and pericardial FAST views.

In emergency medicine, E-FAST refers to bedside trauma ultrasound that adds views of the chest for pneumothorax to the standard abdominal and pericardial FAST views. This meaning comes from Kirkpatrick (2004) in The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care.[1]

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Kirkpatrick, A. W., Sirois, M., Laupland, K. B., Liu, D., Rowan, K., Ball, C. G., Hameed, S. M., Brown, R., Simons, R., Dulchavsky, S. A., Hamilton, D. R., & Nicolaou, S. (2004). Hand-Held Thoracic Sonography for Detecting Post-Traumatic Pneumothoraces: The Extended Focused Assessment With Sonography For Trauma (EFAST). The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 57(2), 288-295. https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ta.0000133565.88871.e4

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