A pre-knowledge assessment for critical care echocardiography is below. Please take this assessment prior to your Critical Care Ultrasound Rotation and the Annual CCUS course. Click Here for the test
The point of care ultrasound revolution has brought a renaissance to providers of resuscitative care: No longer is determination of shock something that requires invasive monitoring (e.g. Swan Ganz) or an ICU admission. Instead, with good image acquisition and image interpretation skills, point of care echo can answer this question anywhere in the hospital - the ED, the ward, the ICU and, the CT scanner [...]
See the below tutorial on how to clear the hard drive of the Sonosite machines found in our hospital. A full hard drive can get in the way of your archiving and even slow down machine function. It is easy to do, just watch! [wpvideo Xi7pHCIf]
November 2012 was an active month for ultrasound usage across the three academic sites (Victoria Hospital – Emergency Department, University Hospital – Emergency Department, St. Joseph’s Health Care – Urgent Care Centre) covered by the Division of Emergency Medicine. A total of 837 studies were performed and archived in November 2012. Roughly 40 percent of studies were performed by physicians training to become competent in [...]
The point of care, critical care ultrasound (CCUS) program at Western University has become enabled with transesophageal echo (TEE) capability. The arrival of new TEE transducers that function on the bedside, point of care machines in all our ICU’s will allow for expanded capabilities in properly trained hands. With several Critical Care Western program faculty (as well as some fellows) being trained in TEE use, [...]
For the most recent academic session for the Critical Care Western fellows, the topic was critical care ultrasound (CCUS). This opportunity was intended to provide overview of interesting recent cases from within our own program’s tickle trunk of great studies. This session was carried out over Google Hangout. This was partly inspired by this recent international panel discussion and partly because we need to look at [...]
First and second year medical students participated in a successful abdominal ultrasound workshop hosted by the Point of Care Ultrasound Interest Group on December 10 at University Hospital. The event was well attended and feedback from students was extremely positive. Big thanks to Mike Clemente (Meds 2015) and Evan Ailon (Meds 2016) for planning the session and also to Drs. Rob Arntfield, Drew Thompson and [...]
Based on this fascinating trial and the outstanding work done by Antoine Vieillard Baron’s group, I (along with support from Pierre Kory of critcaresono.com fame) came up with the below flowsheet to guide integration of ultrasound findings in septic shock patients. […]
The medical student led Point of Care Ultrasound Interest Group is pleased to announce the group’s next meeting. This session will focus on GI and abdominal imaging, including: – Abdominal Aorta – Gallbladder – Liver – Kidney and Urinary Bladder Similar to the last session, students will have plenty of opportunity to test the ultrasound machines. […]
The next meeting of the FOCUS on POCUS branch of the Point of Care Ultrasound Interest Group will be held on Tuesday Dec 11th at noon. Location TBD but will try and put it at UH this time. Will send another announcement a week before with the location. The focus for this session will be false positive exams but will also feature the usual smorgasbord [...]
