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

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

The ACEP Ultrasound Section hosted its annual Ultrasound Management Course on Friday October 14. This year’s course was organized by directors Vivek Tayal and Troy Foster and co-directors Rajesh Geria and Bret Nelson. Special thanks to ACEP organizers Marilyn Bromley and Julie Williams who were instrumental in putting the course together.

Over 125 participants registered for this full-day course which served as a whirlwind introduction to the operational aspects of emergency ultrasound. Participants interacted with each other as well as national ultrasound leader in small group breakout sessions covering topics such as quality assurance, image management systems, reimbursement issues, and others.

Faculty for the course (listed below) hailed from across the United States and brought enormous expertise to bear in their lectures and small group sessions.  We look forward to their continued involvement as the course expands. Planning has already begun for the next Ultrasound Management Course to be held at ACEP in Denver 2012!

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The Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound, 2nd Edition is now available from Cambridge University Press and major booksellers. The book details evidence-based protocols for the use of bedside ultrasound in the acute and critical care setting, as well as step-by-step guides for using ultrasound in procedures. It is ideally suited for emergency physicians and intensivists interested in basic or advanced applications of ultrasound.

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