What is it about ultrasound that brings out the passion in people?

This week we’ve had a number of conversations – from new and not so new members of the Zedu family – about how learning even the simplest of POCUS applications has made the world of difference: to imaging; to speed; to confidence. And how the very personal journey of discovery has developed into a passion for ultrasound imaging. On reflection we came to the conclusion that the passion is driven in part by how immediate an impact ultrasound can have.

Only this week we saw this first hand, with two situations where the identification of ‘incidentalomas’ in our patient model cohort resulted in rapid and proactive medical management. ‘Incidentalomas’ identified by learners, some of whom only hours earlier were doubting their scanning acumen.

Ultrasound isn’t easy, but even with fundamental skills you and the power of sound can make the difference.

See you next week

Suean and Mike

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28 January

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Insights into Imaging @myESR

A pictorial review of the utility of CEUS in thoracic biopsies

27 January

@asmeofficial

The process of slowing down in clinical reasoning during ultrasound consultations

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Point‐of‐care lung ultrasound findings in the pediatric emergency clinic during the COVID‐19 pandemic

@ucsdsono

Serratus Anterior Plane Block for Thoracic Wall Pain

@AIUMUltrasound The Scan

Dermatologic Ultrasound: Skin Deep Knowledge

@ASE360

ASE Statement on Adapting Pediatric, Fetal and Congenital Heart Disease Echocardiography Services to the Evolving COVID-19 Pandemic

@ALiEMteam

SplintER Series: “Pop in the Posterior Thigh”

@emdocsdotnet

Unlocking Common ED Procedures: Approach to the Patient with Difficult Vascular Access  

@sciencedirect Radiology Case Reports

Ultrasound of a patient with penetrating scrotal trauma: finding a needle in a haystack

@sciencedirect Radiology Case Reports

A novel sonographic sign of paradoxical movement of diaphragmatic paralysis in pediatric patients after cardiovascular surgery

@sciencedirect Radiology Case Reports

Annular pancreas mimicking hypertrophic pyloric stenosis in a female infant

@sciencedirect Radiology Case Reports

True partial diphallia with associated penoscrotal transposition of two hemi-scrotums

 

Prerupture diagnosis of a pregnant rudimentary uterine horn

26 January

@MadtownSono

Elderly male with Dyspnea

@Crit_Care

Lung ultrasound can predict response to the prone position in awake non-intubated patients with COVID‑19 associated acute respiratory distress syndrome

@UCIrvineEM

A Case Report of Pediatric Ovarian Torsion: The Importance of Diagnostic Laparoscopy

@SCoRMembers

Ultrasound Covid-19 FAQs guidance for sonographers updated

@PhysicsWorld

Singing plays a key role in thyroid cancer test

25 January

@ASE360

Association Between Transesophageal Echocardiography (TEE) and Clinical Outcomes After Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) Surgery

24 January

@escardio

Prognostic validation of partition values for quantitative parameters to grade functional tricuspid regurgitation severity by conventional echocardiography

@escardio

Right ventricular myocardial work: proof-of-concept for non-invasive assessment of right ventricular function

@escardio

Pressure–volume loop validation of TAPSE/PASP for right ventricular arterial coupling in heart failure with pulmonary hypertension

23 January

@Crit_Care

Bedside POCUS during ward emergencies is associated with improved diagnosis and outcome: an observational, prospective, controlled study

@UCIrvineEM

Case Report: Using Point-of-care Ultrasound as a Tool to Identify a Urethral Foreign Body

@UCIrvineEM

Abdominal Pain in the Elderly Patient: Point-of-care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Small Bowel Obstruction

@UCIrvineEM

Testicular Torsion in Monorchism Diagnosed with Point-of-care Ultrasound: A Case Report

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Efficacy of paravertebral block in “Fast-tracking” pediatric cardiac surgery – Experiences from a tertiary care center

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Diagnostic challenges with transesophageal echocardiography for intraoperative iatrogenic aortic dissection: Role of epiaortic ultrasound

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Left atrial thrombus in a case of severe aortic stenosis with severe left ventricular dysfunction: An Incidental finding on transesophageal echocardiography

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Mitral kissing lesion with anterior mitral leaflet aneurysm in a child

@CI_Journal

Unilateral axillary Adenopathy in the setting of COVID-19 vaccine

@nresearchnews

Transperineal ultrasound as a reliable tool in the assessment of membranous urethra length in radical prostatectomy patients

@NatRevCardiol

Pathophysiology of sepsis- induced cardiomyopathy