Point of Care Transcranial Color-Coded Duplex Ultrasound of the Middle Cerebral ArteryFawaz Philip Tarzi 1, Sebina Bulic 1, Stacey Ho 1, Pravesh Saini 1, Andrei Alexandrov 2, Yuriy S. Bronshteyn 3
1Department of Neurology, University of Southern California, Keck school of Medicine, 2Department of Neurology, University of Arizona, College of Medicine, 3Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine
Transcranial ultrasound is an essential tool for monitoring patients with various neurological conditions. Although it is commonly used in a protocolized fashion in consultative studies, the brain has been overlooked in many protocols utilizing point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS). This study proposes a PoCUS image acquisition protocol.
