title: [Thoracoabdominal sonography (E-FAST plus) -AI training module 5 in anaesthesiologist: performed focussed sonography].
abstract: Anesthesiologists and Critical Care Physicians are confronted with the differential diagnoses of dyspnea, complications of mechanical ventilation or rapid assessment of trauma patients on a nearly daily basis. This requires the timely diagnosis or exclusion of a wide variety of disease processes including pleura effusion, pneumonia, pneumothorax as well as thoracical or abdominal bleeding. Furthermore, the anaesthesiologist or intensivist often makes decisions leading to invasive procedures like thoracentesis or percutaneous dilatational tracheostomy. Bedside ultrasound as the "visual stethoscope" of the acute care physician offers an alternative to other imaging modalities like X-ray and CAT scan and can reduce associated high-risk transportation of mechanically ventilated patients. In this article, we introduce a new training module based on the DGAI curriculum.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Anästhesiologie und operative Intensivmedizin, Maria-Josef-Hospital GmbH, Greven.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Röhrig
authors.forename: Armin
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Seibel
authors.forename: Peter M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Zechner
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Steigerwald
authors.forename: Tobias
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kummer
authors.forename: Heinrich V
authors.initials: HV
authors.lastname: Groesdonk
authors.forename: Wolf
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Armbruster
authors.forename: Raoul
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Breitkreutz
mesh_terms: D000007:Abdominal Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D013896:Thoracic Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013898:Thoracic Injuries / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*