Can point-of-care ultrasound speed up time to diagnosis for small bowel obstruction?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.

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Daniel Singer et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2022 Nov.

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. 2022 Nov;29(11):1379-1380.

doi: 10.1111/acem.14570. Epub 2022 Aug 11.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
² Department of Surgery, Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA.

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