Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

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 Wednesday, June 20. 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.

The course is held at the beautiful and historic Ponte Vedra Inn and Club.

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Highlights of the four-hour course include:

1. Cardiac ultrasound
2. Thoracic ultrasound
3. Ultrasound for venous access
4. Assessment of the hypotensive patient

Faculty for this year’s course include:

• Bret Nelson, MD, RDMS (course director)
• Petra Duran, MD
• Joseph Wood, MD, JD, RDMS

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 Mount Sinai Department of Emergency Medicine hosted its annual ultrasound CME conference held on March 22 at the Stern Auditorium.

Faculty, fellows and PAs from a number of institutions took part in our eighth annual conference.

The course was directed by Bret Nelson, MD and topics included ultrasound physics (Leila PoSaw, MD, MPH) and assessment of  airway and breathing (Jim Tsung, MD, MPH), circulation (Daniel Singer, MD), disability/trauma (Phil Andrus, MD) and procedure guidance (Danny Duque, MD).

Great lectures by Sinai’s Emergency Ultrasound faculty were followed by an intensive hands-on scanning session.

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

Congratulations to Sinai’s own Dr. Jim Tsung, who recently coauthored a major evidence-based consensus guideline on point-of-care lung ultrasound. The manuscript is the result of a multi-national effort by pioneering clinician-sonographers, and was just published in the journal Intensive Care Medicine:

International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound.

PMID: 22392031