title: Emergency care focus: A FASTer method of detecting abdominal trauma.
abstract: Focused abdominal sonography for trauma (FAST) is a rapid, noninvasive, and highly accurate diagnostic tool that identifies life-threatening accumulations of blood and other intra-abdominal fluids following trauma.
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004638:Emergency Treatment / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods* / Q000451:nursing; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D024802:Nurse's Role; D009730:Nursing Assessment / Q000379:methods; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D013997:Time Factors; D014463:Ultrasonography