Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma (FAST)
Predicts presence of pericardial or intra-abdominal injury after penetrating or blunt trauma.
FAST results alone should not dictate the decision to operate, and negative FAST does not exclude injury. This calculator is meant to help with interpretation of FAST findings, which are at least partially dependent on the user's sonographic technique.
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Grace Rozycki, MD, MBA, is chief of surgery at Indiana University’s Methodist Hospital and the Willis D. Gatch Professor of Surgery and associate chair of the department of surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine. She previously served as chief of trauma and critical care at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta. Dr. Rozycki has pioneered research on the application of surgeon-performed ultrasound in patients with post-trauma hemothorax, cardiac tamponade, hemoperitoneum, solid organ injuries, intra-abdominal abscesses, and femoral deep venous thrombosis.
- Jennie Kim, MD
