TY - JOUR
T1 - Integrating Intestinal Ultrasound into an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Practice
T2 - How to Get Started
AU - Abraham, Bincy P.
AU - Reddy, Dheeraj
AU - Saleh, Adam
N1 - Funding Information:
No funding was used for this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 The Author(s).
© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Crohn's & Colitis Foundation.
PY - 2023/7/1
Y1 - 2023/7/1
N2 - Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) offers a safe, noninvasive, point-of-care tool for diagnosing and monitoring disease activity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IUS is used widely in Europe and Canada for IBD, but it remains underutilized in the United States. Growing interest in IUS in the United States has prompted many IBD centers to train their faculty in IUS. This, however, raises questions about how to effectively use this new tool in the United States, which does not use a social medicine model like those implemented in Europe and Canada. Here, we provide a practical framework for incorporating IUS in an IBD practice in the United States, including training requirements, equipment, and protocols for implementing IUS in daily practice.
AB - Intestinal ultrasound (IUS) offers a safe, noninvasive, point-of-care tool for diagnosing and monitoring disease activity in patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). IUS is used widely in Europe and Canada for IBD, but it remains underutilized in the United States. Growing interest in IUS in the United States has prompted many IBD centers to train their faculty in IUS. This, however, raises questions about how to effectively use this new tool in the United States, which does not use a social medicine model like those implemented in Europe and Canada. Here, we provide a practical framework for incorporating IUS in an IBD practice in the United States, including training requirements, equipment, and protocols for implementing IUS in daily practice.
KW - Crohn's disease
KW - Intestinal Ultrasound
KW - inflammatory bowel disease
KW - practice management
KW - ulcerative colitis
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U2 - 10.1093/crocol/otad043
DO - 10.1093/crocol/otad043
M3 - Article
C2 - 37719309
AN - SCOPUS:85173227949
SN - 2631-827X
VL - 5
SP - otad043
JO - Crohn's and Colitis 360
JF - Crohn's and Colitis 360
IS - 3
M1 - otad043
ER -