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Relation: Abdominal_Injury Intraabdominal_Bleeding_FAST
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  • Focussed Assessment Sonography for Trauma (FAST) scan is a rapid, non-invasive technique for assessing abdominal trauma. Haemodynamic instability and a positive FAST result are significantly associated. Sensitivities and specificities of FAST scans for blunt and penetrating trauma, reported by Smith and Wood (2013), are 93.1% and 100%, and 90.0% and 100%, respectively.
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