Recommendations for the use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) by emergency physicians in Canada

CJEM. 2019 Nov;21(6):721-726. doi: 10.1017/cem.2019.392.

¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Saint John Regional Hospital, Saint John, NB.
² Department of Emergency Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, QC.
⁵ Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON.
⁶ University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
⁷ Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, ON.
⁸ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, WE.
⁹ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB.
¹⁰ Hôpital du Haut-Richelieu, Université de Sherbrooke, Quebec.
¹¹ Department of Emergency Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS.
¹² Emergency Medicine Department, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal QC, Canada.
¹³ Prairie Mountain Health, Swan River, Manitoba.
¹⁴ Claresholm Hospital, University of Alberta.
¹⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK.

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Keywords: PoCUS; competency; emergency department; quality; scope of practice; ultrasound.

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