title: Point-of-care ultrasound: seeing the future.
abstract: Practitioners other than radiologists and certified sonographers are increasingly using ultrasound at the bedside to facilitate immediate patient management from both procedural and diagnostic standpoints. This editorial provides a brief overview of the use of point-of-care ultrasound in clinical practice, its potential to improve patient care, and some of the unanswered questions surrounding issues of training, scope of practice, and quality assurance.
authors: Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Electronic address: ammo@uw.edu.
authors: Amy E
authors: AE
authors: Morris
mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence / Q000592:standards*; D003422:Critical Care; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems / Q000639:trends*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018805:Sepsis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D013154:Spleen / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography / Q000592:standards / Q000639:trends