“…In the United States, the Institute of Medicine and the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research listed the implementation of USguided central venous access over traditional blind access as one of the top 10 changes that could most improve patient care [20]. In other scenarios, point-of-care US with very focused problem-oriented examinations is being shown to expedite diagnostic evaluations and interventional procedures and to improve patient care [13,15,21]. Ignoring for a moment the issues of money, politics, egos, resource duplication and utilization, performance quality and documentation, it is hard not to be in favor of the spread of US out of the hands of the traditional imaging experts for certain indications.…”