Rekindling the Relevance of Obstetrical Transvaginal POCUS: Overcoming Barriers to Ensure Patient-Centered Care

Alexis Salerno; Resa E. Lewiss – The transvaginal pelvic point of care ultrasound (POCUS) examination remains a patient-centered and relevant examination. Since 2008, emergency medicine physicians are required to learn, perform, and interpret POCUS examinations to deliver safe and patient-centered diagnostic and procedural care. Pelvic POCUS is one of these core applications in the emergency physician scope of practice. A pelvic POCUS examination seeks to answer the focused question, “Is there an intrauterine pregnancy (IUP)” and risk stratifies the patient when ectopic pregnancy is a clinical concern.