The Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department Division of Emergency Ultrasound was founded in 2003. The Program initially pioneered the development and initiation of a mandatory training rotation for residents in the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program and introduced the concept of point-of-care ultrasound diagnostics to the care and treatment of patients in the emergency department at MGH.

Unlike other imaging options, MRI displays details of tissue such as tendons, nerves, muscles, and organs. Nuclear Medicine techniques are often used to look at many organ systems in the body and determine a patient’s best treatment option. Once the radiologist reads the images, the ordering physician will typically receive the results within 24 to 48 hours.