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What is Point-of-Care Ultrasound?

• Ultrasonography brought to the patient and performed by a health care provider in conjunction with the clinical examination in real time.
• Allows findings to be directly correlated with the patient’s presenting signs and symptoms.
• Allows real-time dynamic image interpretation (rather than images recorded by a sonographer and interpreted later).
• Allows goal-directed, simplified, problem-based assessments (generally qualitative and binomial; rather than quantitative and descriptive).
• Allows the provider to maintain expected workflow (time sensitive and repeatable).
• Allows images to be archived for clinical, education, research and quality assurance purposes.
• Allows for safer procedures with needle visualization and procedure mapping.

Terminology

Associated terms for POCUS include clinical ultrasound, bedside ultrasound, focused ultrasound, emergency ultrasound and limited ultrasound.