Bret Nelson and Mt. Sinai’s director of Disaster Preparedness and Prehospital Care, Kevin Chason, collaborated on this pilot study on use of Prehospital FAST and Aorta US which showed that paramedics can obtain and interpret these studies.
On June - 1 - 2010 research
Visual Diagnosis Case from JEM. Bret and Ted discuss a case of appendicitis confirmed with ultrasound after CT was not conclusive.
On May - 22 - 2010 research
On May - 15 - 2010 research
The ultrasound division is proud to welcome two research scholars: Dr. Hong Chuen Toh and Dr. Shiang-Hu Ang.
Drs. Shiang-Hu Ang (Ash) and Hong Chuen Toh
Dr Hong Chuen Toh is an Associate Consultant from the Department of Emergency Medicine, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore. He obtained his bachelor degree in medicine and surgery M.B.B.S (Singapore) in 2000 and post graduate degree in Accident and Emergency Medicine MRCSEd (A&E) in 2007. He’s a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and his main sub-clinical interest is in emergency ultrasound. He has organized many WINFOCUS courses at his home hospital.
Dr. Shiang-Hu Ang (also known as Ash) is from Singapore’s Changi General Hospital Department of Emergency Medicine. He has been tasked to set up an emergency ultrasound service for his department. His interests include emergency ultrasound as well as emergency critical care, and his research interests lie in the ever expanding field of emergency soft-tissue ultrasound. He also manages the website of the Society for Emergency Medicine in Singapore- please check it out!
On April - 5 - 2010 research
Data from the TRUST (Thoracic Rapid Ultrasound in Trauma) study was presented at the fifth EM Congress in Valencia, Spain on 9/17/2009. The project was selected as one of the top 50 abstracts at the conference. Special thanks to Danny Duque, Vicki Noble, and Betty Chang, our co-investigators on the study.
Bret presenting TRUST data
On September - 20 - 2009 research
