Di Serafino Marco, Vallone Gianfranco
Department of General and Emergency Radiology, "Antonio Cardarelli" Hospital, Naples, Italy.
Department of Life and Health "Vincenzo Tiberio", University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
Radiol Med. 2021 Apr;126(4):636-641. doi: 10.1007/s11547-020-01301-z. Epub 2020 Nov 4.
Ultrasound, in its new point-of-care conception, has been called the stethoscope of the future. Goal-directed bedside ultrasound examination, performed by a healthcare provider to answer a specific diagnostic question or guide an invasive procedure, is currently revolutionizing medical practice. It is used by various specialties in multiple clinical contexts for procedural, diagnostic, and screening applications. Point-of-care ultrasound is also a strategic technique in clinical radiology; it brings the radiologist closer to the patient (in interaction and understanding) like interventional and angiography procedures and, as an integrative imaging modality, is a vital radiological tool for decision-making in many situations. In this commentary, we present our observations on the use of ultrasound, in a sincere appeal to refrain from omitting ultrasound as a diagnostic technique in this era of deep professional change, in which radiologists must return to being a true clinical semiologist.
在其新的床旁即时诊断理念中，超声被称为未来的听诊器。由医疗服务提供者进行的目标导向性床旁超声检查，旨在回答特定的诊断问题或指导侵入性操作，目前正在彻底改变医疗实践。它被多个临床领域的不同专业用于操作、诊断和筛查应用。床旁即时诊断超声也是临床放射学中的一项战略技术；它使放射科医生像介入和血管造影程序那样更接近患者（在互动和理解方面），并且作为一种综合成像方式，在许多情况下是决策的重要放射学工具。在这篇评论中，我们阐述了对超声使用的观察结果，真诚呼吁在这个专业深度变革的时代不要忽略超声作为一种诊断技术，在这个时代，放射科医生必须回归成为真正的临床符号学者。
