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…
Introduction: Although point of care ultrasound has many applications, our principal use for soft tissue ultrasound is evaluation for abscess. Point of care ultrasound can differentiate cellulitis from abscess and has been shown to c…
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…
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=”…
Introduction: Patients for whom intravenous access is difficult are frequent users of the Emergency Department. When common sites of peripheral access are sclerosed or inaccessible, alternative measures of access include placement of…
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…
Bret Nelson and Mt. Sinai’s director of Disaster Preparedness and Prehospital Care, Kevin Chason, collaborated on this pilot study on use of Prehospital FAST and Aorta US which showed that paramedics can obtain and interpret these stu…
Visual Diagnosis Case from JEM. Bret and Ted discuss a case of appendicitis confirmed with ultrasound after CT was not conclusive.
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…
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.
