{"title":"Perioperative Point-of-care Ultrasonography: Preface and Comments.","authors":"Yoshitsugu Yamada","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in the medical equipment including ultrasound devices. There has also been an increasing interest in point-of-care ultrasound in the field of perioperative medicine. This editorial outlines the basis of point-of-care ultrasound to aid anesthesiologists, focusing on how to make better use of this useful tool.</p>","PeriodicalId":18254,"journal":{"name":"Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology","volume":"66 5","pages":"482-483"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Masui. The Japanese journal of anesthesiology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Recent years have witnessed remarkable progress in the medical equipment including ultrasound devices. There has also been an increasing interest in point-of-care ultrasound in the field of perioperative medicine. This editorial outlines the basis of point-of-care ultrasound to aid anesthesiologists, focusing on how to make better use of this useful tool.