Patient Self-Performed Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Using Communication Technologies to Empower Patient Self-Care.

ABSTRACT: Point-of-Care ultrasound (POCUS) is an invaluable tool permitting the understanding of critical physiologic and anatomic details wherever and whenever a patient has a medical need. Thus the application of POCUS has dramatically expanded beyond hospitals to become a portable user-friendly technology in a variety of prehospital settings. Traditional thinking holds that a trained user is required to obtain images, greatly handicapping the scale of potential improvements in individual health assessments. However, as the interpretation of ultrasound images can be accomplished remotely by experts, the paradigm wherein experts guide novices to obtain meaningful images that facilitate remote care is being embraced worldwide. The ultimate extension of this concept is for experts to guide patients t

SUBMITTER: Kirkpatrick AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9689087 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature