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Focused Abdominal Sonography for Trauma (FAST)


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Diagnostic Peritoneal Lavage and the Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma

Gerald R. Fortuna

From Stehr W: Mont Reid Surgical Handbook, 6th edition (Saunders 2008)

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Sonography in trauma was first introduced by Kristensen and colleagues in 1971. It was popularized in the 1990s with several studies reported in the emergency medicine and surgery literature.

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