On March 22, 2012 the Division of Emergency Ultrasound will host its annual hands-on CME course at Mount Sinai. Targeted at clinicians in emergency and critical care settings, the course consists of presentations by national faculty and ple…
Fellows Leila PoSaw and Gene Chan attended the NYSORA (New York School of Regional Anesthesia) Winter Symposium held on December 17-18, 2011 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel on Broadway. In addition to the expected excellent lectures and educa…
Wonderful news from AIUM in this week’s Sound Waves Weekly. AIUM Officially Recognizes ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Guidelines November 17, 2011 In keeping with the AIUM’s overarching mission of advancing the safe and effective use…
The SAEM Resident Education Committee for Bedside Ultrasonography has published a series of modules designed to used for resident education. Â This is another excellent resource out there for anyone teaching bedside ultrasound, and amounts…
Welcome! This is the website for the Mount Sinai Emergency Ultrasound Division. It serves as an information resource for residents, fellows, medical students and others seeking information about point-of-care ultrasound. There is a lot of i…
In case your department doesn’t have the funds to get you a new ultrasound machine on a regular basis, don’t despair. The ultrasound machine on the International Space Station has just been swapped out with a newer model, after…
Here are the references and brief overview of Bret Nelson’s talk at the 2011 ACEM conference in Bangkok, Thailand on July 5. The Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) was first described decades ago and hundred of citat…
The Emergency Ultrasound Interest Group has become an Academy thanks to the hard work of Beatrice Hoffman MD, PhD and James Moak MD, current and past Chairs and many others. The Word of the Day for the meeting was “Sonopalpation….
The first World Congress on Ultrasound in Medical Education has come to a close. The event was a great success, with excellent plenary sessions in the morning, hands-on teaching in the afternoon and southern hospitality in the evening. …
The first World Conference on Ultrasound in Medical Education (WCUME) kicks off today in Columbia, South Carolina. We are looking forward to seeing some of Point of Care Ultrasound’s luminaries here. Richard Hoppmann, the dean…
If you haven’t been reading LITFL, you ought to be. Mike Cadogan and Chris Nickson regularly put out high quality EM/CC posts and offer great resources. The latest of which is the EM/CC Blog database. Not only are the luminaries of EM…
For those of you waiting with bated breath: The Polish language translation of the Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound is now available! The book (by Vicki Noble, Bret Nelson, and Nicholas Sutingco) is now available in English,…
On March 7, 2011 the Division of Emergency Ultrasound will host its annual hands-on CME course at Mount Sinai. Targeted at clinicians in emergency and critical care settings, the course consists of presentations by national faculty and plen…
This calendar will list the starting dates for all of the major EM and Critical Care Point of Care Ultrasound events. If you are interested in adding your event, please use the “contact us” page.Thanks. [google-calendar-events id=”1″ type=”…
WINFOCUS held the 6th world congress on Ultrasound in Emergency and Critical Care at the Policlinico Gemelli in Rome, Italy this year. Sinai was represented by Jim Tsung and Phil Andrus. The excitement included sessions devoted to devel…
