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After a detailed description of the sonomorphology of various diseases in the main part of this book and the symptomatic access detailed in Chap. 11, this chapter will be devoted to emergency situations. What is an emergency? Is it is a life-threatening condition, severe trauma, or just excessive pain? Emergency sonography is defined as a well-performed problem-oriented bedside ultrasound investigation in the emergency patient; it is a continuation of the clinical investigation by the use of technical aids. It is independent of the place of investigation and medical specialty, and may include several organs or regions of the body (Osterwalder 2011).
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Mathis, G., Osterwalder, J. (2011). Emergency Sonography in the Chest (Excluding Echocardiography). In: Mathis, G. (eds) Chest Sonography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21247-5_12
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