The Mount Sinai Division of Emergency Ultrasound was proud to visit Lutheran Medical Center today for a critical care ultrasound workshop. Many thanks to Dr. Bonnie Simmons, Chair of Emergency Medicine and Dr. Gloria Tsan, Director of Medic…
On August 20-21, King Chulalongkorn Hospital Memorial Hospital was host to the WINFOCUS course: Essential Ultrasound Guided Invasive Procedures in Emergency and Critical Settings Dr. Suthaporn Lumlertgul was the director of this course, hel…
The Mount Sinai Division of Emergency Ultrasound is pleased to welcome their fellow for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Rob Arntfield joins Sinai from London, Ontario, Canada where he was an attending emergency physician at The University…
The Adriatic Vascular Ultrasound Society will host its 7th annual meeting and CME conference September 23-25 in Montecatini Terme. The official language for the conference is English, and it will be held in Tuscany! This is an EFSUMB accred…
The Emergency and Critical Care community will no doubt benefit from this new journal. The Critical Ultrasound Journal is the official publication of the international ultrasound group WINFOCUS (world interactive network focused on critic…
This full day course on May 10th saw a packed audience of peds EM fellows from all over New York City. Hosted by the faculty of the emergency ultrasound division from Maimonides Medical Center, as well as renowned guest speakers Dr. Paul Si…
The second session of the 1st International Consensus Conference on Pleural and Lung Ultrasound was held in Pisa, Italy May 11-12. Ultrasound leaders from across the globe were present, including Mount Sinai’s Jim Tsung. Thwarting r…
Wow. Really interesting article from Science Daily. This beats the GE VScan. Looks like it works with Microsoft Windows on smartphones, so not ready for iPhone…yet.
ACEP and SAEM are now united in their support of the revision of ultrasound guidelines published by ACEP in 2008. See Dr. Moak’s comments below: I am pleased to announce that the SAEM Board of Directors has endorsed the 2008 ACEP Ul…
Finally- a little recognition! We were named one of the top 50 continuing medical education blogs by Nurse E.D.U. Although there is no mention that they were listed in any particular order, we will consider ourselves in the top 20 of that l…
Another beautiful sunny day. Although some people left for early flights back home, there was still some life left in the conference on Saturday. Notable events included: Sinai’s own Henrietta Rosenberg, MD, hosting a meet-the-profess…
Another great day for the Emergency and Critical Care track. 8:15 head and neck US 9:45 Emergency and Critical Care Community of Practice meeting Michael Blaivas was at the helm as the new Chair of the EM/CC community of practice. Bret Nels…
Thursday was a great day for the EM/Crit Care track. Not sure what happened in the AM – I was on a plane – not on a boat – on a plane! The hands-on vascular access course was held in the afternoon. The opening lecture co…
As the ultrasound fellow, I have the privilege of scanning with the ultrasound faculty, all of our residents and all of our non-ultrasound faculty. It is so refreshing to have such a variety to work with. At times, the non-ultrasound fa…
Michael Blaivas organized an exciting preconference course on evaluation of the acutely decompensating patient. Bret Nelson (speaking about vascular catastrophes) and Jim Tsung (describing the nuances of this evaluation in the pediatric p…
