Computed Tomography Limitations
Accuracy Of (FAST) Treatment
Darron Jones
Miami Dade College
Today’s health-care system is more advanced than ever before due to new technology and new innovative ways to assist patients. Because of these new advances, the cost of health-care also increased making it harder for patients to go to the doctor. There is a new treatment called Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma(FAST) that can cut cost on finding abdominal trauma just as proficient as the Computed Tomography(CT). Many healthcare providers think that they should keep the (CT) and not move on toward the (FAST), but I think they should switch it because of the lower cost for patients, the accuracy capabilities, and has no limitations.
The Computed Tomography(CT) is …show more content…
Some of those limitations are “high cost, being time-consuming, need to transfer the patient out of the emergency department, and exposure to radiation (Ghafouri, et al., 2016).” The reason why those limitations can be dangerous is because if you are positive for blunt abdominal trauma and you must be moved out of the emergency department your chance of death will be higher because moving you would waste more time rather than fixing the problem, also being exposed to radiation can cause problems to the patient in the future. When using the (FAST) those limitations are not valid because there are no known limitations.
In conclusion, the (FAST) came out to be as proficient as the (CT) which is more expensive for patients. Many institutes should change to the (FAST) for the fact that it is less expensive and has no limitations or risk factors toward patients. I hope soon the (FAST) will be considered the Gold Standard (primary) diagnostic imaging machine because if I were to have blunt abdominal pain I would want my provider to find if I have free fluid in my abdominal cavity as fast as possible and the (FAST) can make that possible.
REFRENCES
Ghafouri, H. B., Zare, M., Bazrafshan, A., Modirian, E., Farahmand, S., & Abazarian, N. (2016). Diagnostic accuracy of emergency-preformed focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) in blunt abdominal trauma. Diagnostic accuracy of emergency-preformed
Darron Jones
Miami Dade College
Today’s health-care system is more advanced than ever before due to new technology and new innovative ways to assist patients. Because of these new advances, the cost of health-care also increased making it harder for patients to go to the doctor. There is a new treatment called Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma(FAST) that can cut cost on finding abdominal trauma just as proficient as the Computed Tomography(CT). Many healthcare providers think that they should keep the (CT) and not move on toward the (FAST), but I think they should switch it because of the lower cost for patients, the accuracy capabilities, and has no limitations.
The Computed Tomography(CT) is …show more content…
Some of those limitations are “high cost, being time-consuming, need to transfer the patient out of the emergency department, and exposure to radiation (Ghafouri, et al., 2016).” The reason why those limitations can be dangerous is because if you are positive for blunt abdominal trauma and you must be moved out of the emergency department your chance of death will be higher because moving you would waste more time rather than fixing the problem, also being exposed to radiation can cause problems to the patient in the future. When using the (FAST) those limitations are not valid because there are no known limitations.
In conclusion, the (FAST) came out to be as proficient as the (CT) which is more expensive for patients. Many institutes should change to the (FAST) for the fact that it is less expensive and has no limitations or risk factors toward patients. I hope soon the (FAST) will be considered the Gold Standard (primary) diagnostic imaging machine because if I were to have blunt abdominal pain I would want my provider to find if I have free fluid in my abdominal cavity as fast as possible and the (FAST) can make that possible.
REFRENCES
Ghafouri, H. B., Zare, M., Bazrafshan, A., Modirian, E., Farahmand, S., & Abazarian, N. (2016). Diagnostic accuracy of emergency-preformed focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) in blunt abdominal trauma. Diagnostic accuracy of emergency-preformed