Ultrasonography experts have developed consensus-based definitions for the Focused Assessment With Sonography for Trauma (FAST) tests to assist in decision-making for children who have suffered blunt abdominal trauma.
her head? can you see the wounds at this point? yes, sir. reporter: you have some idea what the obvious wounds are but look at rest of her body for another gunshot wound, for example? that s part of the trauma evaluation. never assume all you see is all that s present. i saw the severe head injury, blood loss. eyes closed. a blackened and swollen right eye and she was she was grunting a little bit. i got the impression she was trying to communicate, but was being frustrated by the fact she could not. reporter: they had put i.v.s in her already in the field? yes. we always put new i.v.s in here. groin i.v.s because of the severity of her blood loss and needed large i.v.s, we put 24 several lines. reporter: talk about trauma. people talk about a, b, c. year here, she grunting but