Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

On August 20-21, King Chulalongkorn Hospital Memorial Hospital was host to the WINFOCUS course:
Essential Ultrasound Guided Invasive Procedures in Emergency and Critical Settings

Dr. Suthaporn Lumlertgul was the director of this course, held at the hospital’s cutting edge surgical training center. Faculty including Mount Sinai’s Bret Nelson, as well as Luca Neri (past president of WINFOCUS), Yuen Chi Kit, Henry Cheng and Mok Ka Leung.

Left to right: Luca Neri, Bret Nelson, Suthaporn Lumlertgul, Henry Cheng, Mok Ka Leung, Yuen Chi Kit

The course covered ultrasound guidance for procedures such as venous access, pericardiocentesis, thoracentesis, nerve blocks, foreign body localization, and others. Physicians from many countries were in attendance.

Upcoming WINFOCUS training courses around the world are listed here.

The Mount Sinai Division of Emergency Ultrasound is pleased to welcome their fellow for the 2010-2011 academic year. Dr. Rob Arntfield joins Sinai from London, Ontario, Canada where he was an attending emergency physician at The University of Western Ontario.

Rob has also completed a two-year critical care medicine fellowship in addition to his EM training. Rob sees a particular role for bedside ultrasound in further uniting these two specialties. He brings advanced training in focused transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography to Sinai.

He has a strong background in ultrasound education internationally and has served as advisor and instructor with ICCU Imaging, Inc.  Among other academic pursuits this year, Rob is excited to examine possible role for transesophageal echocardiography in the ED. Beyond ultrasound, Rob has particular interests in ED-based critical care, sepsis and organ donation after cardiac death.

Rob has brought his family from the North and is grateful for the hospitality shown by his new ED colleagues and support staff at Sinai.

The Emergency and Critical Care community will no doubt benefit from this new journal.  The Critical Ultrasound Journal is the official publication of the international ultrasound group WINFOCUS (world interactive network focused on critical  ultrasound) .  It is new this year, but they are already into their third issue.    Headed by Mike Blaivas, the pediatric and neonatology section is edited by none other than our own Jim Tsung.

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This full day course on May 10th saw a packed audience of peds EM fellows from all over New York City. Hosted by the faculty of the emergency ultrasound division from Maimonides Medical Center, as well as renowned guest speakers Dr. Paul Sierzenski and our very own Dr. James Tsung.

Participants were treated to a day of informative lectures covering:

• basics in bedside ultrasound
• FAST
• RUQ
• lung ultrasound
• cardiac ultrasound
• pediatric ultrasound (intussusception, pyloric stenosis, appendicitis)
• pelvic ultrasound
• soft tissue ultrasound

The latter part of the afternoon was spent hands-on with various cool portable ultrasound machinery and volunteer models. Of course, no full day event can be complete without food to give everyone pause for catching up and camaraderie.

The second session of the 1st International Consensus Conference on Pleural and Lung Ultrasound was held in Pisa, Italy May 11-12.  Ultrasound leaders from across the globe were present, including Mount Sinai’s Jim Tsung. Thwarting recent Icelandic ash clouds, Dr. Tsung teleconferenced in as the the conferences’ first virtual attendee.

Dr. Tsung joined notable faculty including:

• Roberto Copetti
• Mahmoud El Barbary
• Luna Gargani
• Daniel Lichtenstein
• Gerhard Mathis
• Andrea Reissig
• Gino Soldati
• Giovanni Volpicelli

As well as other leaders in thoracic ultrasound imaging. The conference focused on establishing common nomenclature for thoracic ultrasound anatomy, a review of literature published on the topic, and presentations of research by Dr. Roberto Copetti (neonatal & pediatric lung ultrasound) and Jim Tsung (pediatric pneumonia and bronchiolitis).

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