This week has flown by with a full covid-safe emergency medicine course keeping us busy.

Things are still tricky though – with uncertain borders and leave being difficult to get, everything is just that little bit harder for everyone.

Nevertheless, we’re here for you and will do our darnedest to make sure you get the ultrasound training you want. As we’ve proved over the past year, we’re committed to delivering – come rain, hail or shine.

If Covid interrupts normal service – whether it prevents you from getting to us, or us from teaching you – we’ll reschedule, find an alternative delivery model or refund. No ifs, buts or maybes.

But we need your support too. It’s going to be a long while before normality resumes. So please, spread the word – whether it’s telling your friends and colleagues about what we do, or even booking some training time with us – every little bit helps.

And if you’re from Victoria why not get behind a local business – we’re not too proud to play the parochial card! Then – to paraphrase our Premier – we can “All get on the Gel”.

See you next week

Suean and Mike

P.S. – we’re still doing a callout – if teaching ultrasound is what you love and you’re  based in Melbourne drop us a line – we need you!

P.P.S. –  the first #coachingcorner for 2021 is coming up in February – register your interest or catch up on all the goodness from 2020 available for free any time.

22 January

Journal of Physiotherapy ft @georgentou1

Lung ultrasound has greater accuracy than conventional respiratory assessment tools for the diagnosis of pleural effusion, lung consolidation and collapse: a systematic review

21 January

@SCoRMembers

Ultrasound gel: infection prevention

@BioMedCentral Journal of Intensive Care

Advanced echocardiographic phenotyping of critically ill patients with coronavirus-19 sepsis: a prospective cohort study

20 January

Ultrasound Int Open

Focal Autoimmune Pancreatitis: A Simple Flow Chart for a Challenging Diagnosis

@EmergencyMedBMJ

Diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care lung ultrasound in COVID-19

@EmergencyMedBMJ

Nurse practitioner administered point-of-care ultrasound compared with X-ray for children with clinically non-angulated distal forearm fractures in the ED: a diagnostic study

@BioMedCentral ft @DocMickley

Evaluating a longitudinal point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum for pediatric residents

@jaffa_md

Join @EveryOneNoOne1 and I for another #POCUSchat as we discuss our thoughts on #POCUS phantoms for ultrasound-guided regional nerve blocks!https://t.co/T1oRNCjJhe pic.twitter.com/jjfEbhk36V

— Elias Jaffa MD MS (@jaffa_md) January 19, 2021

19 January

@ISUOG

Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirth and Neonatal Death in Twins: key messages for obstetricians and fetal medicine specialists

@JETEMOnline

An Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia Elective for Emergency Medicine Residents

@PLOSOne

Value of endoscopic ultrasonography in the observation of the remnant pancreas after pancreatectomy

@CookCountyEM

Cook County Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Division: POCUS in PE

@iamritu

Let me splain Splay to you & why you should know about it #echofirst #ASEchoJC #ACCFIT @ASE360 @Phil_Wiener #tweetorial https://t.co/OhxYDX979X pic.twitter.com/Z4cDk8SW5y

— Ritu Thamman MD (@iamritu) January 19, 2021

18 January

@srrezaie RebelEM

POCUS and Soft Tissue Foreign Bodies

@eScholarship

Septic Malleolar Bursitis in a Patient with an Ankle Electronic Monitoring Device: A Case Report

@CASEfromASE

Clot in Transit in a Patient with COVID-19: Transesophageal Echocardiographic Guidance of Mechanical Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

@amit_pawa

Links
1. Interscalene https://t.co/hVM6Oz2d6C
2.Axillary https://t.co/B8Nj4YI4H6
3.ESPhttps://t.co/SyAO9NnwQ6
4.Rectus Sheathhttps://t.co/uBq3uEsrDA
5.Femoralhttps://t.co/1R3Ij1Zv1R
6.Adductor Canalhttps://t.co/oiVdHK3C0C
7.Popliteal https://t.co/hy79V0Fh60

— Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ (@amit_pawa) January 17, 2021

#COVID has changed the way we teach. In this week's podcast @ResaELewiss and I discuss how we teach #POCUS at the bedside. Check it out!https://t.co/yRlcueRK43#FOAMed #MedTwitter pic.twitter.com/xPs03VJ8sl

— Jailyn/Ben (@coreultrasound) January 18, 2021

17 January

@ehj_ed

Heart failure and systolic function: time to leave diagnostics based on ejection fraction?

@CriticalCareNow

Pain control in the critically ill…htwith ultrasound. Wait, what? @heysirimd https://t.co/dXSWMkC1SS#POCUS #Ultrasound #criticalcare #FOAMCC #FOAMED #emergency_medicine #emergencymedicine #analgesia pic.twitter.com/ruI8MZnRbo

— Haney Mallemat (@CriticalCareNow) January 16, 2021

16 January

@UAlberta_Sono

Ultrasound-guided subclavian access by CCUS Fellow/ intensivist @leonbyker

@JCVAonline Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for the Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist

 

@PratsEM

Must read article series for anyone who reads #POCUS studies ⇢ Recognizing Bias in Studies of Diagnostic Tests @EmergNSea

Part 1 https://t.co/PUPyP9n2bs, Part 2 https://t.co/qKZ9XElu5g pic.twitter.com/kPta5ZbCVe

— Michael I. Prats (@PratsEM) January 15, 2021

15 January

@JCVAonline

The Right Ventricle in COVID-19 Lung Injury: Proposed Mechanisms, Management and Research Gaps

@BioMedCentral

An evaluation of obstetric ultrasound education program in Nepal using the RE-AIM framework

14 January

@BioMedCentral Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Study on the views and methods of ultrasonic screening and diagnosis for abnormal aortic arch in infants

@AIUMUltrasound

Lung Ultrasound Integration in Assessment of Patients with Noncritical COVID‐19

@DovePress

Application of High-Resolution Ultrasound on Diagnosing Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Lung Ultrasound, a Better Choice for Neonatal Pneumothorax: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

Want to watch/listen to @EveryOneNoOne1 and I act like fools and talk about nerdy #POCUS stuff? Then join us for Episode 1 of #POCUSchat! All are welcome!https://t.co/YEpg5uNGGA pic.twitter.com/GjPQ8xSi7W

— Elias Jaffa MD MS (@jaffa_md) January 15, 2021

 

@AIUMUltrasound

Interobserver agreement of lung ultrasound findings of COVID‐19