The workup of acute kidney injury and or low urine output frequently warrants the use of renal genital urinary ultrasound. Whereas renal GU ultrasound has traditionally been performed as a consultative service by stenographers and radiologists, our paper defines an evidence-based protocol for point of care renal GU ultrasound image acquisition. Our multidisciplinary group has developed a specialty agnostic renal GU point of care ultrasound image acquisition protocol.
This protocol includes indications, limitations, patient positioning, transducer selection, and image optimization. Our protocol simplifies and standardizes the approach to bedside kidney and GU ultrasound, decreasing the need for consultative ultra sonography and expediting diagnosis.
