For exit vivas

1. FAST
Focused assessment with sonography
for trauma

2. • is a rapid bedside ultrasound examination
performed by surgeons, emergency physicians
and certain paramedics as a screening test for
blood around the heart (pericardial effusion)
or abdominal organs ( hemo peritoneum)
after trauma.

3. Technique
• patient in supine position
• 3.5-5.0 MHz convex transducer
• five regions may be scanned
• subxiphoid transverse view:
pericardial effusion
left lobe liver injuries
• longitudinal view of the right upper quadrant:
right liver injuries
right kidney injury
Morison pouch
• longitudinal view of the left upper quadrant:
splenic injury
left kidney injury
• transverse and longitudinal views of the suprapubic region:
bladder
pouch of Douglas
• left and right thoracic views
pneumothorax and haemothorax