Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

Another great day for the Emergency and Critical Care track.

8:15 head and neck US

9:45 Emergency and Critical Care Community of Practice meeting

Michael Blaivas was at the helm as the new Chair of the EM/CC community of practice. Bret Nelson was elected the incoming Secretary, and thus took notes. Apparently poor handwriting and the inability to touch type were not obstacles in the selection process.

11:00 clinical sonography – emergency sonography

1:30  transcranial Doppler session

This was an excellent session, with great hands-on instruction by experienced and enthusiastic instructors. They made everything look easy.

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Thursday was a great day for the EM/Crit Care track.

Not sure what happened in the AM – I was on a plane – not on a boat – on a plane!

The hands-on vascular access course was held in the afternoon.  The opening lecture covering short and long axis approaches by Jason Nomura was an excellent example of clear, concise presentation of complicated information.  Clearly, Jason has mastered the zen of well…presentation zen.  I’m sure no one in that room had a hard time remembering the importance of distinguishing the tip of the needle from the shaft after his talk.

The day ended with a Just Images session presented by Anthony Dean and Chris Moore titled “Patients in Shock.” Fascinating clips of patients with pulmonary embolism, atrial myxoma, tamponade, dissection, and more.

Mount Sinai’s Director of Pediatric Radiology, Henrietta Rosenberg presented data on the use of ultrasound in pediatric hip evaluations this afternoon as well.

Michael Blaivas organized an exciting preconference course on evaluation of the acutely decompensating patient.  Bret Nelson (speaking about vascular catastrophes) and Jim Tsung (describing the nuances of this evaluation in the pediatric patient) were among those presenting.

Faculty from emergency and critical care backgrounds gave cutting-edge presentations and the feedback from registrants was excellent. Faculty and their lectures after the break!

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Lots going on at this year’s AIUM conference. Sailing into San Diego harbor (chaperoned by the US Navy!), Bret Nelson and Jim Tsung speaking at Michael Blaivas’ pre-conference course, Phil Andrus selected as AIUM’s social media maven, and more!

Check in for updates of each conference day!

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Each fall, the Massachusetts General Hospital Emergency Department hosts their annual Bedside Ultrasound CME course. Mount Sinai’s own Bret Nelson joined an international faculty for this year’s offering.

Instructors from Boston, New York, Saudi Arabia, Spain, and Thailand covered emergency and critical care topics for the two-day course. The course is directed by Vicki Noble, MD, RDMS.