What is the Whole-Body Approach?
Point-of-care ultrasound is often compartmentalized such that the clinician will focus on one body system while performing a critical care ultrasound examination. Instead of this compartmentalized method, the Whole-Body Approach (WBA) is a systematic multi-organ ultrasound examination that typically includes thoracic, cardiac, limited abdominal, and vascular evaluations.1
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When diagnosing a patient, time is not always on your side. The Whole-Body Approach can help you make accurate decisions in patient care.
Questions often arise on how, when, and where to incorporate the Whole-Body Approach into our daily front-line practice and perform that paradigm shift from compartmentalized to systematic. We invite you to download the article, A Whole-Body Approach to Point of Care Ultrasound, which dives deeper into these questions using real case scenarios.
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Whole-Body Approach – Definition
The Whole-Body Approach (WBA) to point-of-care ultrasound is a systematic multi-organ ultrasound examination that typically includes thoracic, cardiac, limited abdominal and vascular evaluations.
1. Narasimhan, M., Koenig, SJ., and Mayo, PH. (2016) A Whole-Body Approach to Point of Care Ultrasound.CHEST;150(4):772-776
2. Sorensen, B., & Hunskaar, S. (2019).Point-of-care ultrasound in primary care: a systematic review of generalist performed point-of-care ultrasound in unselected populations.The Ultrasound Journal, 11(1). doi: 10.1186/s13089-019-0145-4
3. Denault, A., Canty, D., Azzam, M., Amir, A., and Gebhard, C. (2019) Whole body ultrasound in the operating room and intensive care unit.Korean J Anesthesiol, 72(5): 413-428
4. Andreas Karabinis MD, PhD, Mariantina Fragou MD, Dimitrios Karakitsos MD, PhD. (2010)Whole-body ultrasound in the intensive care unit: A new role for an aged technique.Journal of Critical Care, 25, 509–513
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