دورية أكاديمية
A National Survey of Prehospital Care Services of United Kingdom for Use, Governance and Perception of Prehospital Point of Care Ultrasound
| العنوان: | A National Survey of Prehospital Care Services of United Kingdom for Use, Governance and Perception of Prehospital Point of Care Ultrasound |
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| المؤلفون: | Salman Naeem, Christopher Edmunds, Thomas Hirst, Julia Williams, Amir Alzarrad, James Ronaldson, Jon Barratt, East Anglian Air Ambulance Research, Audit, Innovation and Development Group, Pre-hospital Trainee Operated Research Network |
| المصدر: | POCUS Journal, Vol 7, Iss 2 (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: | CINQUILL Medical Publishers Inc., 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Internal medicine LCC:Medical technology |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | PoCUS, HEMS, Trauma, Pre-hospital, ultrasound, governance, Internal medicine, RC31-1245, Medical technology, R855-855.5 |
| الوصف: | Introduction: Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has become a common practice in prehospital care over the last 10 years. There is lack of literature on its use and governance structure in United Kingdom (UK) prehospital care services. We aimed to survey the use, governance of prehospital POCUS among UK prehospital services and perceptions of clinicians and services regarding its utility and barriers to its implementation. Methods: Four electronic questionnaire surveys were delivered to UK helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) & clinicians, ambulance and community emergency medicine (CEM) services between 1st of April and 31st of July 2021 investigating current use, governance structure for POCUS and perception about its benefits and barriers. Invitations were sent via email to medical directors or research leads of services and using social media. Survey links remained live for two months each. Results: Overall, 90%, 62% and 60% of UK HEMS, ambulance and CEM services respectively, responded to surveys. Most of the services used prehospital POCUS, however only two HEMS organisations fulfilled the Royal College of Radiology governance criteria for POCUS. The most commonly performed POCUS modality was echo in cardiac arrest. Majority of clinicians judged POCUS to be beneficial and the common perceived benefit was promotion of enhanced and effective clinical care. Major barriers to its implementation included a lack of formal governance, limited literature supporting its use and difficulties in performing POCUS in prehospital environment. Conclusion: This survey demonstrates that prehospital POCUS is being provided by a majority of the prehospital care services and clinicians have found it beneficial in providing enhanced clinical care to their patients. However, the barriers to its implementation are relative lack of governance structure and supportive literature. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2369-8543 |
| Relation: | https://ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/pocus/article/view/15739; https://doaj.org/toc/2369-8543 |
| DOI: | 10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15739 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/c85efbc11bd94accb494e5c3c481066d |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.85efbc11bd94accb494e5c3c481066d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 23698543 |
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| DOI: | 10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15739 |