The Adriatic Vascular Ultrasound Society will host its 7th annual meeting and CME conference September 23-25 in Montecatini Terme.
The official language for the conference is English, and it will be held in Tuscany!
This is an EFSUMB accredited Euroson school event. For more information please visit here.
Bret Nelson recently filmed a webinar on critical care ultrasound at Gulfcoast Ultrasound Institute in Florida. He discussed evaluation of the hypotensive patient, incorporating Scott Weingart’s RUSH exam as well as other literature on acute assessment of the heart, IVC, FAST exam, and pleura.
Information on the webinar is available at Gulfcoast.
References for a variety of hypotension evaluations are included below, as well as a few screenshots from the webinar!
We are pleased to present our annual critical care ultrasound pre-conference course at the Clinical Decision Making in Emergency Medicine symposium in Ponte Vedra, Florida on June 23. Each year this intensive, hands on course features ultrasound faculty from across the country working in small groups with live models and plenty of hands-on scanning time.
Highlights of the four-hour course include:
Faculty for this year’s course include:
Finally- a little recognition! We were named one of the top 50 continuing medical education blogs by Nurse E.D.U.
Although there is no mention that they were listed in any particular order, we will consider ourselves in the top 20 of that list since that’s where we fell.
Today, Nurse E.D.U.
Tomorrrow, The Huffington Post!
Another beautiful sunny day. Although some people left for early flights back home, there was still some life left in the conference on Saturday.
Notable events included:
Sinai’s own Henrietta Rosenberg, MD, hosting a meet-the-professor session on sonography of the infant hip
EM/Critical Care track session on the ultrasound evaluation of dyspnea, featuring Anthony Dean, Paul Sierzenski, Vicki Noble, David Bahner, and Jim Tsung.
Scientific session on Emergency Sonography research in the afternoon
Just Images- cardiac ultrasound in the ED and ICU, including contributions by Chris Moore, Alexander Levitov, Jim Tsung, and Erika Kube.
San Diego 2010 Final Thoughts:
Bret:
The Transcranial Doppler session was great. The best part of the AIUM conferences for me is learning something new and getting outside of my comfort zone. The faculty for the TCD course made the technique look easy. Although you can’t hope to master a new clinical skill in an afternoon, I was inspired to learn more about this technique and how it could impact care in the ED.
Zsolt Garami, director of the TCD Center at Methodist Hospital in Houston, demonstrated the perfect blend of knowledge, technique, wit, and sarcasm to make for a fantastic experience!
Phil:
The Just Images sessions were really useful. Lots of great cases, and an excellent video of a pupillary reflex from Chris Moore.
Jim:
The coolest thing I saw was in one of the OB sessions- a 4D/3D plus real-time movie of an ultrasound guided needle sampling of fetal blood cells from an umbilical cord floating in the amniotic sac. That was pretty cool- and the future for ultrasound guided procedures.
