Point-of-Care Ultrasound Performed by a Medical Student Compared to Physical Examination by Vascular Surgeons in the Detection of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms

Point-of-care ultrasonography performed by a medical student is highly accurate and more effective in detecting AAAs than physical examination by vascular surgeons. The introduction of POCUS training at the medical student level and its wide-scale implementation as an extension to physical examination may lead to improved detection of AAAs.