Prehospital emergency ultrasound

Since the introduction of sonography into inpatient emergency medicine in the last few years, it has also found its way into prehospital patient management due to optimization of device technology. Emergency ultrasound is an interdisciplinary offer to all physicians working in acute care and can also be used in a prehospital setting. It primarily serves for the diagnosis or exclusion of acute pathologies and enables rapid and target-oriented therapy. Presentation of the most important prehospital applications and their impact on patient management. A literature search was carried out for relevant and current studies in well-known online databases. A few publications exist on prehospital applications concerning acute dyspnea, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and trauma. Due to the availability of prehospital emergency ultrasound, many relevant pathologies can be recognized or excluded at an early stage. In trauma patients this leads to an improvement in patient management. With focused emergency ultrasound, important information about the underlying pathologies in patients with life-threatening conditions can be obtained on site and therapeutic actions can be initiated early on.