How much training in ultrasound would emergency nurses need?
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How much training in ultrasound would emergency nurses need?

Tricia Scott Consultant editor, Emergency Nurse

Ultrasound sonography, in which a high-pitched sound wave travels at different speeds through objects of variable density, offers effective clinical diagnostic applications to identify problems, such as free abdominal fluid following blunt trauma, cardiac effusion and long bone fractures.

Emergency Nurse. 26, 2, 5-5. doi: 10.7748/en.26.2.5.s1

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