Development of a Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Training Platform with Remote Guidance and Decision-Making Support

Abstract

POCUS is vital for trauma triage in prolonged casualty care settings on the future battlespace. Acquiring and sustaining these skills in frontline medical providers is challenging, expensive, and resource-intensive. We hypothesize that delivering POCUS training and remote guidance via Butterfly iQ hand-carried device will provide effective emergency triage of cardiopulmonary instability warfighters. Our proposed objectives for this two (2) year study are: evaluate the ability of POCUS training and remote guidance support to allow users to obtain key images for cardiopulmonary instability triage, and assess distinct user group capacities to correctly identify normal and abnormal images using a digital library.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2021
Accession Number
AD1146873

Entities

People

  • A. Fernandez-bustamante
  • Patrick C. Ng

Organizations

  • 59th Medical Wing

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Battlespace
  • Casualties
  • Colorado
  • Combat Operations
  • Data Analysis
  • Department Of Defense
  • Emergencies
  • Environment
  • Governments
  • Guidance
  • Instability
  • Lepidoptera
  • Platforms
  • Point-Of-Care Diagnostic Testing
  • Training
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

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  • Medical Imaging.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation