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June 5, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Handheld Ultrasound Market Round-up

Handheld ultrasounds are here to stay.

June 4, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Cardiac Tamponade

A 72-year-old female presented to the emergency department with difficulty breathing. She reports that she has been having increasing shortness of breath while walking, and now can only walk a few ste...

June 3, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

P2 (PEM POCUS) Network

Pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) is a young subspecialty that is growing and changing quickly. Progress in PEM has generally followed developments in general emergency medicine while also advancing ...

June 3, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Emergency Ultrasound Section Pediatric Subcommittee Update

Lumbar puncture (LP) is a common procedure in febrile or septic infants presented to the Emergency Department. Performing an LP can be challenging in infants, with failure rates as high as 65% among n...

June 3, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Management of Handheld Ultrasound Devices in our Systemwide Ultrasound Program

As point-of-care ultrasound continues to become the imaging modality of choice for clinicians for all specialties, portable ultrasound devices, such as handheld ultrasound (US) devices have gained inc...

June 3, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Disinfection

Love it or hate it, cleaning is a part of life - because we love it (and because it’s evidence-based) let’s talk about ultrasound machine cleaning.

May 29, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

POCUS on the Peds Side: A World of Its Own

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has been a topic of great interest, debate, and promise over the last few decades.

May 29, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Growth of PEM POCUS Online Collaboratives & Resources

The development of pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) POCUS as a subfocus of emergency ultrasound started to formalize in the early 2000’s, with the first PEM providers graduating ultrasound fellowshi...

May 29, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Chair's Letter

A colleague texted me last week to let me know a patient was sent to the emergency department by her nephrologist after he detected a pericardial effusion with tamponade using his handheld ultrasound ...

March 18, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship Application Kit

Welcome to the ACEP Ultrasound Section's Fellowship Application Kit. This page is intended for interested residents aspiring to be clinical ultrasound fellows.

February 29, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Probing the Literature National Journal Club: Ultrasonography in Sepsis

At this month’s journal club, we had the great pleasure of having Dr. Robert Ehrman MD as our guest speaker to present his research on the use of ultrasonography in managing patients with reduced ejec...

February 29, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Probing the Literature National Journal Club: A Novel Approach to US-Guided Thoracostomy

Welcome to our summary of Probing the Literature National Journal Club, where we delve into the latest research and discussions in the field of point of care ultrasound.

February 29, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Transcranial Doppler in the Emergency Department: A Clinical Application and Quick Reference

A middle-aged female presents to your Freestanding Emergency Department for growing confusion throughout the morning.

February 28, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat

Sono Hot Seat with Rachel Liu

February 28, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

ACEP Critical Care Subcommittee Update

The ACEP Critical Care Subcommittee has been working on expanding, finalizing, and disseminating our critical care pocket cards.

February 25, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Emerging Ultrasound Technology: Sonothrombolysis in the treatment of acute ST-elevation MI

Emergent percutaneous interventions (PCI) have revolutionized the care for patients with acute occlusive myocardial infarction and have been the treatment standard for decades.

February 20, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

ACEP EUS Industry Round Table Subcommittee Update

The ACEP EUS Industry Round Table (IRT) is a subcommittee that works directly with our industry partners to improve emergency ultrasound.

February 20, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Creating a 3D Printed US Lightsaber

I am a gigantic nerd. This would come as no surprise to anyone who has spent any semblance of time around me. From video games to Star Wars to 3D printing (and college football, though not considered ...

February 20, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Emerging Technology Subcommittee Update

The Emerging Technology Subcommittee exists to inform the community and facilitate discussion about innovations in emergency ultrasound.

February 20, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Is Your Ultrasound Machine [QR] Coding? Use QR Codes To Report & Solve Machine Issues

Are your ED ultrasound machines working? How do you find out if there’s a problem with one of the machines in your fleet?

February 6, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Exploring and Leveraging Artificial Intelligence

Overwhelmed by the terms artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, deep learning? Well, you’re in luck. I’m here to tell you, you don’t have to jump into being a know-it-all or expert anytime so...

February 6, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Chair's Letter

Happy New Year! It is going to be a great year for ultrasound! My predictions for 2024 include:

February 6, 2024 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

The New Frontiers of Ultrasound

Over the past two decades, point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) has undergone two primary revolutions.

November 15, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

CUAP Management Award Winners 2023

The CUAP Board presents Management Awards to recognize outstanding programs and their directors that have truly gone above and beyond during this academic year. Award recipients were established by bl...

November 13, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

POCUS 2-Minute Video Challenge

Section leaders came up with a fun POCUS 2-Minute Video Challenge. We invited our POCUS community to create a 2-minute video teaching the audience something about POCUS. We kept the prompt broad so we...

October 19, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

The Genicular Nerve Block for Knee Pain in the Emergency Department

Maria Eberle, MD Emergency Ultrasound Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center Farnam Kazi, MD Emergency Ultrasound Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medi...

October 4, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Simulation Cases

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October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

EMRA Ultrasound Committee Update

The EMRA Ultrasound Committee is excited to share some updates on what our leaders have been working on the last few months:

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Lessons Learned from a 20 Years Running Research POCUS Symposium

The Emergency Ultrasound Division of Mount Sinai Morningside West, formerly known as St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, held its 20th Annual Regional Ultrasound Symposium titled “The Next Big Thing in Emergency Ul...

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Frances Russell on POCUS Research Careers

I have to say through medical school and residency I was not very interested in research. It was in fellowship that I really became interested, and I believe that it was for multiple reasons.

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