Using POCUS for decision-making in CP R/O ACS cases
September 22nd, 2016
Can POCUS help you in the management of chest pain rule-out ACS cases? Let's have a look at a case…
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We are now available on iBooks!
In 2012, we published the print book Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Emergency Physicians, combining the course manuals of The EDE course and The EDE 2 Course. Since then, we’ve received numerous requests for an e-book version, so due to popular demand, we have done just that. The e-book is NOW available on the iBooks Store! Retitled Essentials of Point-of-Care […]
Using POCUS for decision-making in CP R/O ACS cases
Can POCUS help you in the management of chest pain rule-out ACS cases? Let’s have a look at a case… A few months ago, a man in his mid-60s presented with a chief complaint of chest pain. Past history included dyslipidemia and a remote lower extremity orthopedic injury. The patient smoked 3/4 ppd. He had […]
CEUS then & now
I’m here in Toronto at the CEUS conference with a couple dozen POCUS educators from around the country. They come from all parts of the country, from academic centres, from large and small community hospitals, and from some of Canada’s more remote regions. We are debating all aspects of the certification process, both in the […]
CEUS Educator’s Conference
The Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society is holding and educator’s conference Thursday September 15 and Friday Sept 16 in Toronto. Registration is now full! One of the first orders of business is that CEUS will be changing it’s name to CPoCUS to reflect the growing number of non-emergency medicine specialties now involved in the organization. […]
POCUS History
An emergency physician who I know that works somewhere on the planet in an underserviced area, as most places seem to be, was cleaning up his office this summer. He came across this relic of POCUS history that dates back to the late 1990s. It was a dictation that he had saved as evidence of […]
Stop missing biliary colic
Editor’s note: We’ve talked about the gallbladder before. And we will be talking about it again because the message needs to get out there. I will go out on a limb and state that it is still common for patients to present with epigastric pain that was previously diagnosed by the primary care physician or one […]
Misuse and over-diagnosis in POCUS
As Steve Socransky recently observed, talking about errors in POCUS is a sign of the growing maturity in the field. In its infancy, we wanted to promote the success stories, the wins, the need to do it right with rigorous training and standards. There were numerous logistical and political obstacles to overcome so this positive […]
2016 updated version of Essentials of Point-of-Care Ultrasound e-book on iBooks NOW LIVE!
The 2016 updated version of the Essentials of Point-of-Care Ultrasound e-book on iBooks has now gone live. It includes updates to all chapters. The most significant updates are to the Renal, IVC, and Thoracic chapters. The Renal chapter provides a more incisive way to determine the grade of hydronephrosis. The IVC chapter contains the latest […]
EDE 2 adds Paul O’s edus2 simulator
The focus of EDE 2 (like EDE 1) has always been on image generation and interpretation. We have always mentioned the indications for doing the scan and present at least one clinical scenario for each type of scan, but the cognitive aspect of helping participants remember to do the scan has been relatively neglected. Although […]
EDE Bootcamp Success
Over the past weekend we held a bootcamp that provided participants with the EDE course followed by supervised scans and exams to obtain CEUS IP certification in core skills. I have been asked numerous times what our bootcamps are all about for POCUS training. Over the past few years we have perfected a system that […]
Appendicitis: It isn’t all about the size
During a recent EDE 3 course, I was asked about the cutoff size for appendicitis in children. I informed the learner that 6mm was the number I was taught to use for all ages. And this is certainly one of the most accurate measurements to use. But this really doesn’t make sense in very young patients […]
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