It’s been a huge fun week…

between the crew holding the fort together in Melbourne with a full house of chokka block workshops and attending the AIUM conference in Orlando the learning and laughter hasn’t stopped. Got a gel-tonne of ideas and inspiration to bring back to Australia from POCUS world leaders – the brain is buzzing – this ultrasound thing is truly global!

Will keep it short as there’s a plane home to catch – highlights this week to take a look at include a piece by Giovanni Volpicelli (@giovolpicelli) that asks “Lung ultrasound: are we diagnosing too much?”, Episode 8 of
@BlockIt_Hot_Pod podcast that talks RA-Phantoms of the Food-inspired kind, and a special edition of the USGel Podcast (@PratsEM) with Shawn Sethi (@shawn_sethi) that discusses Virtual Reality in Ultrasound Education.

That’s the boarding call – 15 hours in a tube awaits…

See you next week.

Suean and Mike

P.S. – Be sure to register and tune into the April Coaching Corner – if you’re teaching ultrasound join the discussion and share your experiences as we explore how to streamline lesson planning and maximise learner outomces. LIVE AND FREE 6 APRIL – 7.30pm AEST.

Get the most out of your teaching moments – join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer (TRUST) course This isn’t a course on how to perform an ultrasound examination or use the technology – it’s designed to give you the teaching tools you’ll need to teach ultrasound on the run. In the words of a previous participant – it’s meta!

6 – 7 May 2023 | 7 – 8 October 2023

31 March

New POCUS 101 Blog post on Ultrasound-Guided Central Lines (CVL)! #POCUS

Check it out here👉🔗https://t.co/NvGAKFAWMp pic.twitter.com/eBbImYCUBp

— POCUS 101 (@Pocus101) March 30, 2023

Ultraschall Med

Liver Fat Quantification: When do We Need It?

30 March

Continuing the USGel Podcast theme (see @PratsEM) this article covers the state of #ultrasound sim tech & areas for improvement

How have you integrated sims in your #POCUS programs? What tech have you used? What has/n't worked?

Join the conversation…https://t.co/4dNdtgwrLR pic.twitter.com/v9arSNjJMK

— Zedu Ultrasound Training (@zedunow) March 30, 2023

Short Axis In-Plane Ultrasound-Guided Technique for Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation

Journal of Emergency Medicinehttps://t.co/A30f3ImFCg

50 days' free access link: https://t.co/OoyKBmlkNd@vickyoteroc @BeltranPaulyng @panchopocus @ASARUC1 #POCUS pic.twitter.com/UeFDOXsbsp

— Issac Cheong (@Issac80) March 30, 2023

@WINFOCUS ft @giovolpicelli

Lung ultrasound: are we diagnosing too much?

29 March

Congratulations @RubbleEM on the well deserved @AIUMultrasound peter arger education award #Ultra2023 pic.twitter.com/TdWrqcxWna

— Creagh Boulger ❤💚💜💙💛 (@CreaghB) March 28, 2023

When disruptive technology goes mainstream
Listen to the #WINFOCUS22 opening lecture by the one and only @nobleultrasound https://t.co/RJB4QGz1vx pic.twitter.com/q8Ke4lhn1X

— WINFOCUS WORLD (@WINFOCUS) March 29, 2023

Proud of this team effort @UAlberta_Sono led by Dr Vincent Lau and @Buchanan_MD. Supported by @leonbyker @anddream16 & many others!
Intrapulmonary and Intracardiac Shunts in Adult COVID-19… : Critical Care Medicine https://t.co/tKhSEL0oIc @UAlberta_ICU

— Alberta Sono (@UAlberta_Sono) March 28, 2023

@JAMANetworkOpen

Use of a Deep-Learning Algorithm to Guide Novices in Performing Focused Assessment With Sonography in Trauma

28 March

It's still #DVT #VTE awareness month. Learn how to identify them w #POCUS and make clinical decisions here #FOAMed #FOAMus
@WVUMedicine @WVUEmergencyMed @wvuemeducation @WVUMedSchool @WVU_Ultrasound https://t.co/m6GjrC3QDp

— Joseph Minardi (@jminardi21) March 27, 2023

@CASEfromASE

Decision-Making in a Pulmonary Valve Fibroelastoma: The Role of Intraoperative Transesophageal Echocardiography

@JCM_MDPI

Clinical Utility of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography in the Evaluation of Mitral Valve Disease: Tips and Tricks

27 March

This Sonography Journal case report and CPD test highlights some of the ‘textbook’ signs and symptoms of Mitral annular disjunction (MAD), which are rare but critical cardiac syndrome. https://t.co/CrDW7KQxNM@WileyHealth #SupportingSonographers pic.twitter.com/hP8xUYprM2

— ASA (@asasonography) March 26, 2023

Bedside UltraSound in the ED (BUSED) for acute biliary disease – Another Ab Gets BUSED! #EBM #FOAMed https://t.co/QBUoRhSdTR@broomedocs and I review a study done at @LHSCCanada with @WesternUEmerg & @westernuSurgery on the SGEM

Special appearance by author @rob_leeper pic.twitter.com/jT08BpFAaG

— Ken Milne MD (@TheSGEM) March 25, 2023

Thrilled & honored to have been part of the world famous US Gel Podcast!

Had a blast with amazing friends & hosts @PratsEM @shawn_sethi

📻Tune in for some (semi) serious #ultrasound debating#ultrasoundtraining #POCUS #VR #AR @zedunow

P.S. – didn't realise I had an accent😂 https://t.co/ZupCNgyxuz

— Suean Pascoe (@i_c_sound) March 29, 2023

Catheter-related thromboses in #ICU??
➡️diagnosis can be difficult
➡️relevance vary! asymptomatic to potentially deadly PE/SVC syndrome
➡️epidemiology relatively well known in cancer, scarce data in critical illness
🖇️ https://t.co/J0C2KDO5lO

Refers to
🖇️ https://t.co/RxzixSWRBy pic.twitter.com/d3HVjH9Mgz

— Intensive Care Medicine (@yourICM) March 26, 2023

Have you checked out Episode 8 of @BlockIt_Hot_Pod ?!

Here we talk about RA-Phantoms of the Food-inspired kind, and give a shout out to ex-@GSTTanaesthesia fellow Dr Kate Klocker!

Full episode:https://t.co/doQ3HW0P8r

🍎 https://t.co/RpRpN7MRb7https://t.co/6JJeffX0mD pic.twitter.com/YlKxlr4TwU

— Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ (@amit_pawa) March 26, 2023

Echocardiography Journal

A rare complication of pericardiocentesis: Pneumopericardium

Health Science Reports

Repeat transcranial Doppler ultrasound imaging in Kuwaiti children with sickle cell disease after a 10-year interval: A prospective, cohort study

@ALiEMteam

SAEM Clinical Images Series: An 8-year-old Male with Dysuria

26 March

10 points for identifying which @zedunow educator this is.
(Hint: the taller one of the two)#POCUS education – This is the way#mando #grogu #UltraAIUM23 #ultracon23 #sonoslam23 #sonoslam #ultrasound #cosplay https://t.co/IFOhWhDq6x

— Zedu Ultrasound Training (@zedunow) March 25, 2023

@JCM_MDPI

Diagnostic Accuracy of Endoscopic Ultrasonography in Selecting Patients for Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection for Early Gastrointestinal Neoplasms

25 March

Thrilled to have been a co-author on this paper led by Dr Mike Smith – progressing the discussion+standards within the profession in musculoskeletal ultrasound imaging #mskus #pocus https://t.co/2FrZIjcNfu @PhysioMACP @APPN_physio @thecsp @CASE_news @brunelmskultra1 @Bruneluni pic.twitter.com/b4lznpYyMF

— Stuart Wildman (@swildmanphysio) March 24, 2023

Is the #POCUS echo pulse check #DNR? Some studies stirred some controversy, but what if we didn’t look at the heart at all (apart from identifying reversible causes & procedural)? In this video, @tsquaredmd and I discuss two recent studies:https://t.co/Uy53HoktDI #FOAMed #MedEd pic.twitter.com/q4SeacAyzi

— Jailyn/Ben (@coreultrasound) March 24, 2023

¡Recién publicado! 📑🖊
Estudio #ECOSARC, un poquito más cerca del diagnóstico de #sarcopenia con #ecografía muscular 🔊.https://t.co/KxN4XqvUTm#ultrasound #geriatrics #POCUS pic.twitter.com/V6dZDtdrIj

— Dr. Rubén Alcantud, Geriatra (@rubenalcantud) March 24, 2023

Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine

Bedside ultrasound for rapid diagnosis of small bowel obstruction and incarcerated hernia

@TheLancet

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