Bedside identification of blunt thoracic aortic injury with point-of-care transesophageal echocardiography. (October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Landau, John H; Power, Adam H; Leeper, W Robert; Arntfield, Robert T
• Is Part Of: Trauma. Volume 18:Number 4(2016:Oct.)
• Page Start: 287
• Page End: 290
• Publication Date: 2016-10
• Subjects: Blunt thoracic aortic injury -- transesophageal echocardiography -- point-of-care ultrasound; Traumatology -- Periodicals; Disaster medicine -- Periodicals; Wounds and injuries -- Periodicals; Electronic journals; 617.1
• DOI: 10.1177/1460408616646587
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1460-4086

Abstract

Trauma point-of-care ultrasound in the form of the Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST) exam and its evolution into extended FAST have significantly enhanced the diagnostic power of evaluation and resuscitation of the trauma patient; however, these modalities still have limitations in evaluating mediastinal and cardiac pathology. This report demonstrates a case of point-of-care transesophageal echocardiography in the diagnosis of blunt thoracic aortic injury in an unstable patient involved in a motor vehicle collision.