POCUS: a Sisyphean task?

Maryam Bahreini^{1

2}, Beatrice Hoffmann³, Paul Atkinson^{4

5

6}, Eddy Lang^{7

8}

Affiliations

¹ McGill University, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Emergency Ultrasound, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie Medicine, New Brunswick, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Horizon Health Network, Saint John, NB, Canada.
⁶ Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada.
⁷ Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone, Alberta, Canada. Eddy.Lang@albertahealthservices.ca.
⁸ Emergency Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta, Canada. Eddy.Lang@albertahealthservices.ca.

Editorial

Maryam Bahreini et al. CJEM. 2024 Apr.

. 2024 Apr;26(4):217-218.

doi: 10.1007/s43678-024-00677-5.

Maryam Bahreini^{1

2}, Beatrice Hoffmann³, Paul Atkinson^{4

5

6}, Eddy Lang^{7

8}

¹ McGill University, Montreal General Hospital, Montreal, Canada.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Sina Trauma and Surgery Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Emergency Ultrasound, Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, USA.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie Medicine, New Brunswick, Canada.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Horizon Health Network, Saint John, NB, Canada.
⁶ Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada.
⁷ Emergency Medicine, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Alberta Health Services, Calgary Zone, Alberta, Canada. Eddy.Lang@albertahealthservices.ca.
⁸ Emergency Strategic Clinical Network, Alberta, Canada. Eddy.Lang@albertahealthservices.ca.

No abstract available

Keywords: Emergency medicine; Intussusception; Point-of-care ultrasonography.

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