Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

We are very pleased to welcome the newest member of the Mount Sinai Emergency Ultrasound Division, Dr. Jennifer Huang!

Dr. Huang completed her residency training at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California and an emergency ultrasound fellowship at the SUNY Downstate / Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York.  She has led emergency ultrasound courses and lectured both nationally and internationally.  She has also been an instructor for the ultrasound guided regional anesthesia course at ACEP since 2010.  Her interests include ultrasound education, ultrasound guided regional anesthesia, and critical care ultrasound.

The inaugural SonoGames were held at the SAEM Scientific Assembly in Chicago this week. Thirty-eight residency programs were represented at the event, organized by Resa Lewiss and SAEM’s Academy of Emergency Ultrasound. Three rounds separated the dabblers from the master sonographers. In order to win, teams had to demonstrate ultrasound knowledge on tests and then complete feats such as blindfolded scanning and replicating sample images.

Here are the results:

Winner: Boston Medical Center

Team members: Derek Wayman, Joseph Pare, and Neil Hadfield. Faculty: Kristin Carmody.

They share The Cup, and each take home a copy of The Manual of Emergency and Critical care Ultrasound

Runner-up: University of Texas-Houston

Semi-Finalists: University of Michigan, University of Connecticut, Carolinas Med Center

Emergency physician, intensivist, and Mount Sinai Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship graduate Dr. Robert Arntfield is making news at his new home, London Health Sciences Center (LHSC) in Ontario, Canada. Dr. Arntfield and his department have set up a hardware and software infrastructure for bedside ultrasound which allows for electronic data storage and retrieval, robust QA, teaching and research.

LHSC’s website has this to say:

Dr. Rob Arntfield, an ED physician and intensivist at LHSC, recently completed a year-long fellowship at The Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, learning and integrating cutting edge point-of-care ultrasound applications into the care of the critically ill patient. Since his return to LHSC, Arntfield has been working with Dr. Drew Thompson, also an LHSC ED physician, to develop new quality assurance training standards to enhance residents’ knowledge and use of this important patient care technology

Check out the website!

The AIUM recently announced a initiative to increase awareness of ultrasound as the first imaging modality to be considered when radiation exposure and cost are factors.  If you are a fan of the Image Gently campaign from the Alliance for Radiation Safety in Pediatric Imaging, you’ll like this ultrasound-centric vision even more. More information below, including the AIUM’s press release.

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This year AIUM is hosting its annual conference at the JW Marriott Desert Ridge Resort and Spa in Phoenix, AZ. The first offering by the Emergency and Critical Care Community of Practice was a great success. The conference proper hasn’t even started yet and the sessions have already started off with a bang.

Moderator Bret Nelson organized the session which was attended by Emergency Physicians, Intensivists, Sonographers, Perinatologists, and Primary Care physicians:

Point-of-care ultrasound in the evaluation and treatment of the unstable patient

• Bret Nelson
• Introduction- Ultrasound for airway, breathing and circulation
•  Srikar Adhikari
• Ultrasound assessment of airway anatomy and intubation
• Eitan Dickman
• Thoracic ultrasound: Beyond pneumothorax
• Anthony Dean
• Basic cardiac assessments
• Chris Moore
• Advanced cardiac assessments
• Robert Arntfield
• Transesophageal echo- practical utility in the critical patient
• Rajesh Geria
• Vascular assessment- IVC (volume assessment), aorta (AAA, dissection)
• Betty Chang
• Ultrasound guidance for bedside procedures
•  Jerry Chiricolo
• Putting it all together- ultrasound use in Resuscitation
• All Faculty
• Panel Discussion and wrap up