SAQ 700 – Trauma – eFAST views after penetrating chest trauma

Marked out of 12.00

You are working in a busy tertiary trauma centre. Your registrar asks you to review images from an eFAST scan performed on a 26-year-old man with a single stab wound to the chest.

He is haemodynamically stable with pulse 90/min, BP 110/80 mmHg and GCS 15. Image 1 and image 2 are shown.

eFAST subcostal cardiac ultrasound view with labels A to D.
Image 1: subcostal view
eFAST parasternal long-axis cardiac ultrasound view with labels A to D.
Image 2: parasternal long-axis view

Identify the labelled points on image 1.

(Marked out of 4.0)


/ 4

List four (4) echocardiographic features suggestive of pericardial tamponade.

(Marked out of 4.0)


/ 4

Identify the labelled points on image 2.

(Marked out of 4.0)


/ 4

Total Score: 0 / 12

Percentage: 0%