Table 1.

American College of Emergency Physicians classification of non-radiologist point-of-care ultrasound (US) [14]

Category	Description
Resuscitative	US used as directly related to an acute resuscitation
Diagnostic	US used in an emergent diagnostic imaging capacity
Symptom- or sign-based	US used in a clinical pathway based upon the patient’s symptom or sign (e.g., shortness of breath)
Procedure guidance	US used as an aid to guide a procedure
Therapeutic and monitoring	US used in therapeutics or in physiological monitoring