[Usefulness and reliability of abdominal point of care ultrasound in family practice (2): Large abdominal vessels, spleen, nephrourological and gynecological ultrasound]. / Utilidad y fiabilidad de la ecografía clínica abdominal en medicina familiar (2): grandes vasos, bazo, nefrourológica y ginecológica.

This article is a continuation of the review initiated in the previous issue about the usefulness of point of care ultrasound in Primary Care, completing the scenarios of large abdominal vessels, spleen, nephrourological and gynecological ultrasound.

[Usefulness and reliability of abdominal clinical ultrasound in family medicine (1): Liver, biliary tract and pancreas]. / Utilidad y fiabilidad de la ecografía clínica abdominal en medicina familiar (1): hígado, vías biliares y páncreas.

Ultrasound is a safe and reliable way to increase diagnosis capabilities, as well as an improving and speed up method for taking decisions for healthcare professionals of every medical specialty. Family doctor, who must be ready to address all kind of health problems for his patients, is the key person to incorporate this tool to his daily activity, acquiring the best managing skill, unknown nowadays, being quite large the clinical situations in the day by day practice, in which he can obtain benefit in a reliable and effective way. Due to this practice is explorer dependent, it's needed to assure the best competence of the professional who practice it, and define the benefits and potential risks its use can create, as well as its application scenarios, in order to avoid unnecessary explorations and minimize opportunity costs that this activity can add to a currently saturated agenda. This work pretends to summarize the current state of abdominal point of care ultrasound, and its utility for the family doctor, in those scenarios that can be potentially reliable and effective.