The recently published statement from the European Association of Echocardiography on the use of pocket-sized imaging devices emphasizes that handheld ultrasound represents a tool for fast initial cardiac assessment as a complement to the physical examination and that it may work in triaging of the patient in need of a complete echocardiographic examination.
Point-of-care ultrasound is a valuable complement to the physical examination that greatly facilitates decision-making in a wide variety of clinical conditions.
It supports the use of PSID as a teaching tool in medical schools, as a tool for a fast initial screening in the emergency setting, and as a complement to the standard physical examination.
Bedside ultrasound is a complement to the patient history and physical examination.
We agree with the reviewers that examination of regeneration in Arf -/-mice will be an important complement to the present study and this investigation is underway.
12 OHRQoL can play a key role in clinical decision making as a complement to clinical examination results, especially in the elderly, whose clinical oral health is closely related to subjective and psychosocial aspects.
Radiography is an indispensable complement to clinical examination and plays a key role in diagnosing and monitoring the course of a condition in OA.
Chest radiographs are frequently obtained as a complement to physical examination of critically ill patients [ 27, 28].
800 patients who were attending the emergency department for abdominal pain were randomised to undergo or not undergo surgeon-performed ultrasound as a complement to standard examination.
The serological test based on the detection of circulating antibodies against M. tuberculosis-specific antigens could represent a useful complement to microscopic examination for screening active tuberculosis [ 9].
For patients with acute abdominal pain, higher diagnostic accuracy is achieved when surgeons use ultrasound as a diagnostic complement to standard examination.
