FAST Exam/Trauma

• Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Point-of-Care, Limited Ultrasonography for Trauma in the Emergency Department: The First Sonography Outcomes Assessment Program Trial
• Emergency department echocardiography improves outcome in penetrating cardiac injury.
• Effect of Abdominal Ultrasound on Clinical Care, Outcomes, and Resource Use Among Children With Blunt Torso Trauma: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
• Use of the focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination and its impact on abdominal computed tomography use in hemodynamically stable children with blunt torso trauma.
• Focused assessment with sonography for trauma: current perspectives

Gall Bladder

• Revised estimates of diagnostic test sensitivity and specificity in suspected biliary tract disease
• Accuracy of ED Bedside Ultrasound for Identification of gallstones: retrospective analysis of 575 studies
• History, Physical, Laboratory Testing, and Emergency Department Ultrasonography for the Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis
• Accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute calculous cholecystitis: review of the literature

Abdominal Aorta

• Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Best-Evidence Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
• The Validity of Ultrasonographic Scanning as Screening Method for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• Systematic Review: Emergency Department Bedside Ultrasonography for Diagnosing Suspected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
• Diagnostic accuracy of non‐radiologist performed ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysm: systematic review and meta‐analysis
• Ultrasonography Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Systematic Evidence Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Renal

• Radiological imaging of patients with suspected urinary tract stones: national trends, diagnoses, and predictors.
• STONE PLUS: Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Renal Colic, Using a Clinical Prediction Tool Combined With Point-of-Care Limited Ultrasonography
• Ultrasonography and plain film versus intravenous urography in ureteric colic.
• The Accuracy and Prognostic Value of Point-of-care Ultrasound for Nephrolithiasis in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Ultrasonography versus Computed Tomography for Suspected Nephrolithiasis

Cardiac Echo

• Emergency department echocardiography improves outcome in penetrating cardiac injury.
• Emergency department point-of-care ultrasonography improves time to pericardiocentesis for clinically significant effusions.
• Bedside echocardiography by emergency physicians.
• Determination of left ventricular function by emergency physician echocardiography of hypotensive patients.
• Diagnostic Accuracy of Right Ventricular Dysfunction Markers in Normotensive Emergency Department Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
• Diagnosing Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
• Cardiopulmonary limited ultrasound examination for “quick-look” bedside application.
• Emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in out-of-hospital and in-ED cardiac arrest.
• Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in the Emergent Setting: A Consensus Statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and American College of Emergency Physicians

Lung

• A lung ultrasound sign allowing bedside distinction between pulmonary edema and COPD: the comet-tail artifact.
• BLUE-protocol and FALLS-protocol: two applications of lung ultrasound in the critically ill.
• Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in children: a meta-analysis.
• Accuracy of Lung Ultrasonography versus Chest Radiography for the Diagnosis of Adult Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis
• Ultrasound in the Diagnosis & Management of Pleural Effusions
• Lung ultrasound training: a systematic review of published literature in clinical lung ultrasound training
• Multicentre pilot study evaluation of lung ultrasound for the management of paediatric pneumonia in low-resource settings: a study protocol

DVT

• Comparison of the Accuracy of Emergency Department-Performed Point-of-Care-Ultrasound (POCUS) in the Diagnosis of Lower-Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis.
• Systematic review of emergency physician-performed ultrasonography for lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis.
• Accuracy of emergency physician–performed ultrasonography in the diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis
• Point-of-Care Ultrasound for a Deep Venous Thrombosis

Skin Soft Tissue

• In patients presenting to the emergency department with skin and soft tissue infections what is the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasonography for the diagnosis of abscess compared to the current standard of care? A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Point‐of‐care Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Abscess in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
• Comparison of computerized tomography and ultrasound for diagnosing soft tissue abscesses
• My patient is injured: identifying foreign bodies with ultrasound

Musculoskeletal

• Point-of-care ultrasound for the diagnosis of shoulder dislocation: A systematic review and meta-analysis
• Accuracy of MRI, MR Arthrography, and Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Rotator Cuff Tears: A Meta-Analysis
• Ultrasound for Distal Forearm Fracture: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic MetaAnalysis
• Musculoskeletal imaging: medicare use, costs, and potential for cost substitution.
• Ultrasound (US) Findings in Patients with Knee Pain: Sensitivity and Specificity for the Diagnosis of Knee Osteoarthritis and Development of an US Prediction Score