Once again our annual ultrasound course in Ponte Vedra was a great success! Participants got an early start on the Clinical Decision Making in Emergency Medicine symposium by honing their ultrasound skills at our pre-conference course.
Nationally recognized faculty joined course director Bret Nelson in covering critical care applications of ultrasound, including:
- Rapid Ultrasound in Shock/Hypotension (RUSH)
- Cardiac ultrasound
- Pneumothorax assessment
- Central and peripheral venous access
We are grateful to Petra Duran, MD, RDMS and her residents for arranging the logistics of the conference. In addition, Anthony Weekes, MD, RDMS, RCS, Vivek Tayal, MD, and Joseph Wood, MD, JD, RDMS who rounded out our all-star faculty.
References for the various hypotension evaluations mentioned in the course follow after the break.
- UHP protocol
- Rose JS et al, Am J Emerg Med 2001 (PMID: 11447518)
- Trinity Protocol
- Bahner D, JDMS 2002
- RCT of ultrasound in hypotension
- Jones AE et al, Crit Care Med 2004 (PMID: 15286547)
- FATE: Focused Assessed Transthoracic Echocardiography
- Jensen et al, Eur J Anaesthesiol 2004 (PMID: 15595582)
- FEER: Focused Echocardiographic Evaluation in Resuscitation
- Breitkreutz et al, Crit Care Med 2007 (PMID: 17446774)
- CA– USE: Cardiac Arrest Ultrasound Exam
- Hernandez et al, Resuscitation 2008 (PMID: 17822831)
- RUSH: Rapid Ultrasound in Shock and Hypotension
- Weingart et al, emCrit.org 2008, EMedHome 2009
- ACES: Abdominal and Cardiac Evaluation with Sonography in Shock
- Atkinson et al, Emerg Med J 2009 (PMID: 19164614)
- RUSH: Rapid Ultrasound in Shock
- Perera P et al, Emerg Med Clin N Am 2010 (PMID: 19945597)
