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April 26, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section
The Peds Subcommittee aims to provide a robust pediatrics presence throughout the ACEP EUS.
April 26, 2023
The ACEP EUS Resident Education subcommittee has been buzzing with a few active projects. They’re still in growth stage and we welcome anyone who is interested to join an existing project, or pitch a ...
The ACEP Ultrasound Section Research Subcommittee has been active with exciting projects over the course of the last year. We would like to thank again Dr. Anne Messman, Dr. Mike Gottlieb and Dr. Di C...
January 20, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section
Welcome to the first newsletter of 2023! It is my privilege and honor to serve as the new ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section Chair.
Are you incessantly getting asked by other specialties to help them set up the well-oiled machine that is your EM POCUS program? Hospital administrators asking how the ED built an accountable and sust...
An otherwise healthy 18-year-old male presents to the emergency department (ED) via ambulance after a syncopal episode while playing basketball this morning.
A tibial tubercle fracture is an uncommon pediatric fracture accounting for < 1% of epiphyseal fractures and 3% of proximal tubercle avulsion fractures.
January 19, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section
There is growing evidence that racial disparities exist in the United States healthcare system. As it stands, underrepresented minorities make up 33% of the United States population.
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) research is vital to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy and clinical application of POCUS, to advance the field of ultrasound, and to inform future innovations. Publicat...
September 12, 2022 • Emergency Ultrasound Section
Our excellent quarterly ACEP Section newsletter is again coming to you filled with POCUS articles from our amazing team.
Cardiac tamponade is an uncommon yet important diagnosis to make in the emergency department (ED). It results from an acute or subacute pericardial effusion accumulating under pressure, which prevents...
A 73-year-old female presents to the emergency department (ED) with right-sided clavicular pain.
A previously well 14-year-old boy developed abdominal pain radiating to the right hemiscrotum 2 weeks prior to evaluation in the emergency department (ED).
A 13-year-old previously healthy female with no past medical history presented with 4 days of right lower quadrant pain.
In the last newsletter, we talked about finding a niche and mentor. Now, we will get into some of the details about developing your study and helpful hints for accomplishing this.
It’s been a shaky, few years on the probe cover front and a great deal of progress has been made.
May 25, 2022 • Emergency Ultrasound Section
Welcome to my first Chair Newsletter of the year. I am very excited to receive the baton from the amazing Dr. Penny Lema and try to continue the great work for which the Emergency Ultrasound Section a...
It is not uncommon to find talking to your hospital’s IT department to be both frustrating and confusing.
A 14-year-old female with a past medical history of anxiety and bipolar disorder presented to the emergency department with constant, sharp, non-radiating right lower quadrant abdominal pain.
The aim of part one is to introduce readers to the importance of research, identifying a research niche, and finding a mentor.
Residency scholarly tracks are educational programs, designed to help trainees develop an area of expertise.
A 65-year-old male with a history of HTN, BPH, IDDM, and lumbar spinal stenosis presented to the ED with low back pain and lower extremity weakness.
February 28, 2022
To increase interaction with individual programs and help disseminate innovative ideas, we launched this unique segment at ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Management Course 2021.
January 31, 2022 • Emergency Ultrasound Section
Penelope Lema, MD FACEP Dear Ultrasound Colleagues, Happy New Year! It was wonderful to see many of you in Boston at the ACEP Scientific Assembly in October last year. It truly was a group effort to h...
A 55-year-old helmeted male with a past medical history of hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and hypothyroidism, presented with left ankle pain and left leg pain after hitting black ice and falling while ...
As our experience with echocardiography has grown the applications and depth of evaluation has, and will likely continue, to expand.
Most research has centered on transthoracic echocardiogram use (TTE). However, more emergency departments are now implementing point-of-care transesophageal echocardiogram (TEE) utilization in cardiac...
Here we review the advantages of US guided cric and describe a novel 3-D printed ultrasound-guided cric training model.
This article presents some important definitions and resources and will provide answers to common questions regarding ultrasound disinfection.
July 14, 2021
A 55-year-old man presents to the emergency department with right knee pain. He was seen three days prior for the same complaint, and had a negative three-view X-ray at that time.
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