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General Internal Medicine • Cardiology • Primary Care • Point-of-care Ultrasound • General Primary Care
What are some practical ways to incorporate cardiac POCUS in the primary care setting?
For example, do you find it most useful for outpatient disease assessment/management, consideration of further imaging or specialist referral, or triaging a patient who might need emergency/inpatient care?
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In the primary care setting, I find cardiac POCUS most helpful for triage of undifferentiated patients and for monitoring of changes such as volume status, keeping in mind:
Cardiac POCUS has a wide spectrum of accessibility for novice users, from systolic function and chamber sizes (attainable) thr...
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