title: Hand-held ultrasound serving three EDs.
abstract: Having a portable ultrasound available to your ED will enable you to perform scans during the nighttime hours, instead of having patients wait for several hours until the radiology department opens. Additional time can be saved by having a technologist read the scans, which frees your ED physicians for other duties. Having ED docs contact the technologist directly, rather than going through a resident, also saves valuable time. Arriving at a diagnosis more quickly provides a boost to patient safety.
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006786:Hospitals, Urban; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000295:instrumentation*