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Lack of governance structure and evidence of benefit have been described as major barriers to its implementation. This paper describes a novel approach to implementation of prehospital PoCUS and clinical governance framework in a UK HEMS.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>A retrospective database review was undertaken at London\u2019s Air Ambulance (LAA) from 1st September 2021 to 31st March 2023. All patients who had PoCUS examination were included. Scans were archived in a cloud-based server and reviewed weekly by expert clinicians. They were graded in adequacy, agreement between reviewer and clinician was recorded and fed back to the clinicians allowing continuous feedback learning. In-hospital diagnosis was sought for patients having the full Pump, Pleura and Pouring blood (PPPB) protocol. Cohen\u2019s Kappa (\u0199) was calculated for inter-rater reliability. Sensitivity and specificity analysis was performed using 2\u2009\u00d7\u20092 tables.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>LAA attended 3,068 missions. Our reviewers identified 701 PoCUS scanning encounters and 628 were included in the final analysis. Clinicians performed 420 scans for pneumothorax, 308 for free fluid and 305 pericardial effusions respectively. Majority of the population were male (85%) who sustained traumatic (93.5%) thoracic injuries (65%). Paramedics performed 29% of the scans. Reviewers deemed 83% of the scans of adequate quality. Inter-rater reliability between clinicians and reviewers was 0.6 for pericardial effusion, 0.67 for pneumothorax and 0.71 for free fluid respectively. A full PPPB protocol was performed in 52 patients out of which 46 were included. The sensitivity and specificity of PPPB protocol for diagnosis life-threatening injuries was 0.5 and 0.9 respectively.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>Introduction of prehospital PoCUS in a HEM service utilizing high quality training, user-friendly workflow and image archiving system, robust governance framework and continuous feedback may be feasible allowing high quality ultrasound examinations. 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