Review article

https://doi.org/10.64266/amu.1.1.6

Updating the 5 Es of Emergency Physician Performed Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound: A Protocol for Rapid Identification of Effusion, Ejection, Equality, Exit, and Entrance

Zachary Boivin orcid.org/0000-0003-4453-3282 ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA *
Michael Danta ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Aisha Droz Lopez ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Mina Hesami ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Christopher L. Moore ; Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

* Corresponding author.

Abstract

The 5 Es (effusion, ejection, equality, exit, and entrance) are a protocol developed in 2015 to standardize the performance and interpretation of cardiac point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). Since its publication, cardiac POCUS has advanced, including the advent of artificial intelligence and additional research that refines and reinforces the 5 Es in cardiac POCUS. This review discusses these advances. The 5 Es continue to serve as a protocol to guide both novice and advanced ultrasonographers in identifying emergent pathology.

Keywords

Aorta; Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound; Echocardiogram; Myocardial Infarction; Pericardial Effusion

Hrčak ID:

333864

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/333864

Publication date:

1.2.2025.

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