Today I link to POCUS 101‘s Pelvic Ultrasound Made Easy.
All that follows is from the above resource.
OB/Gyn, Ultrasound Basics, Ultrasound Protocols, Ultrasound Tutorials
Primary Authors: Annalise Lang, Vi Dinh; Co-authors: Jessica Ahn, Jade Deschamps, Satchel Genobaga, Victor Lee, Reed Krause, Devin Tooma, Seth White. Oversight, Review, and Final Edits by Vi Dinh (POCUS 101 Editor).
Gynecologic and pelvic complaints are common in the clinical settings and can be a result of many causes such as fibroids, adnexal masses, pregnancy, ovarian cysts, ovarian torsion, pelvic inflammatory disease, etc.
Ultrasound is a first-line imaging study for several gynecologic pathologies, so point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a perfect tool to quickly and easily narrow down your differential diagnosis. Other potential benefits of POCUS to your patients include shortening the time before gynecologic consultation (Alonso et al., 2020) and decreasing the length-of-stay of patients in the Emergency Department (Wilson et al., 2016).
We’ll walk you through the steps of how to perform gynecology/pelvic ultrasound using transabdominal and transvaginal approaches. Lastly, we will take a look at several of the main gynecologic pathologies.
By the end of this post, you will be able to use Gynecology/Pelvic Ultrasound to:
- Identify indications for pelvic ultrasound evaluation
- Perform a pelvic ultrasound exam using Transabdominal and Transvaginal techniques
- Evaluate patients for common gynecologic pathologies using ultrasound
- Identify emergent gynecologic cases requiring referral
This post will focus on covering point of care ultrasound (POCUS) pelvic applications of the non-pregnant patient. We cover Obstetric/OB Ultrasound in a different post which you can read HERE.
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