
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.
As promised, here are selected references from today’s talk on Airway Management Mythology. Thanks to the organizers of the International Conference on Emergency Medicine (
Here are some key references from today’s lecture on Status Epilepticus at
We are pleased to present our annual critical care ultrasound pre-conference course at the 




