The case for an ultrasound mandate.

Emergency Medicine pioneered the use of ultrasound at the bedside. All of the Colleges of Emergency Medicine in the Anglo-American system have incorporated Emergency Ultrasound into their training curriculum, and all but ACEM have made training and proficiency mandatory. Emergency Ultrasound has not taken hold in Australasia the way it has in other parts of the world. It is a unique procedure that requires a College mandate to overcome the political and financial arguments that have kept it from flourishing in our hospitals. ACEM needs to instate such a mandate.