Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2019
Abstract
Although the diagnostic use of Point-of-Care ultrasound has been reserved for physicians so far, there has been identified an effort for its qualified use by intensive and emergency care nurses in the Czech Republic and worldwide as well. In this article, the authors provide a literature review of accuracy of the Point-of-Care ultrasound examination performed by nurses and paramedics in different clinical setting and discuss the perspectives of this method in the Czech Republic.