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Our results suggest that concerns regarding the potential for lawsuits related to POCUS in the fields of internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine and critical care are not substantiated by indexed state and federal filed lawsuits. There were no cases of internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine or critical care physicians being subjected to adverse legal action for their diagnostic use of POCUS. In these cases, the majority were formal ultrasounds performed and reviewed by the radiology department, echocardiography studies performed by cardiologists or obstetrical ultrasounds. Ultrasound was mentioned in relation to the lawsuit claim in 70 of the cases returned. Our search criteria returned 131 total cases. A lawyer secondarily reviewed any cases with discrepancies between the three reviewers. Department of Surgery/Division of Trauma and Critical Care, Henry Ford Hospital, 2799 W. Retrieved cases were reviewed independently by three physicians to identify cases relevant to our study objective. Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) telemedicine project in rural Nicaragua and its impact on patient management. We conducted a retrospective review of the Westlaw legal database for indexed state and federal lawsuits involving the diagnostic use of POCUS in internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine and critical care. The purpose of this study is to identify the extent of diagnostic error lawsuits related to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in internal medicine, paediatrics, family medicine and critical care, of which little is known.