The Importance of a Fast Exam for the Belly

"I'm going to disagree with the, the original founders of this exam and say you don't need a fast exam. That's why his mind's less than 60 seconds, even though we reported it as two minutes," he says. "You never seen a sick patient not have fluid in the right of the quadrant ... when the sickness is due to fluid." If there's a lot of free fluid, the pro move is to put them in a position where you could find a pocket and just stick a fine gauge needle in there -- that will radically change your entire vision of what has to happen with this patient", Dr. Raskin adds.