Emergency Ultrasound Newsroom

July 14, 2021

Portable Ultrasound Remote Guidance Systems

Over the last decade handheld ultrasound units have become increasingly portable, affordable, and capable of producing images comparable to larger cart-based machines.

July 14, 2021

Tips and Tricks: Best Practices for Ultrasound-Guided IV Placement

Placement of an ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous line (USPIV) has become an essential skill for any emergency physician.

July 14, 2021 • Section

Ultrasound Coding and Billing Tips

One of the biggest hurdles when implementing a system for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) within your emergency department or clinical practice is understanding the necessary pieces of the puzzle to ...

July 14, 2021

Cases that Count: Serial FAST examinations in a patient with a penetrating stab wound to the buttock

An 18-year-old male was brought in by EMS with a penetrating stab wound to his left buttock from an unknown weapon. Blood was oozing from the stab wound entry site, but he was hemodynamically stable.

July 14, 2021

Ultrasound in Austere Environments

Whether you are in a pre-hospital setting or working in an austere environment without access to advanced imaging modalities and testing, ultrasound can help you care for your patients.

July 14, 2021

Six Steps to Mastering your Echocardiography Skills

From the Medical Student Education Subcommittee of the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section.

July 14, 2021

From the Chair

Summer is here! COVID rates are diminishing. Places are opening up. People are slowly out and about.

April 2, 2021

What’s with the Milestones Shake Up?

Over the last several decades, competency-based medical education has largely replaced the traditional models of time-based, teacher-centered education. In alignment with this transition, the Accredit...

April 2, 2021

Supracondylar Fracture

EUS Section Sonoguide Subcommittee Case A 4- year-old girl comes in with her parents for evaluation of acute left arm pain after a fall from monkey bars. She has her left arm held in a fixed and adduc...

April 2, 2021

POCUS for Shoulder Pain in the Emergency Department

Shoulder pain is a common complaint in the emergency department (ED). Roughly, it is estimated to encompass about 14.7 cases per 1000 patients annually.

April 2, 2021

Pericapsular Nerve Group (PENG) Block for patients with hip or pelvis fractures in the ED

Ultrasound-guided nerve blocks are an important tool for treating pain due to orthopedic injury in the emergency department (ED).

April 2, 2021

Mastering the Intussusception Ultrasound - Tips and Tricks

Intussusception is the most common cause of intestinal obstruction in children less than 2 years of age.

April 2, 2021

Industry Roundtable Update

Each year the ACEP Industry Roundtable leadership seeks to engage industry vendors to improve their products (hardware, software, service).

April 2, 2021

Did you hear that murmur? No, but I saw it on ultrasound! - A Clinical Case of Aortic Stenosis

A 70-year-old male presents to the emergency department after an episode of near syncope.

April 2, 2021

From the Chair

Happy 2021! We made it! It was great to virtually meet with you at the historic ACEP20 Virtual Scientific Assembly in October. Congrats to Dr. Nova Panebianco on her achievements and productivity as t...

September 30, 2020

Toolkit for Global Ultrasound

Ultrasound and global health seem married in many ways. Given limited access to imagining modalities in most low-resource settings, combined with growing expertise in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) ...

September 30, 2020

Snap, Crackle, and Pop! Acute papillary muscle rupture identified with POCUS

Critical Care Subcommittee Case Presentation A 60-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) from a nursing facility in acute respiratory distress. He had a recent inferior wall myocardia...

September 30, 2020

Ovarian Torsion

A 23-year-old female with a history of ovarian cysts presents to the emergency department with abdominal pain.

September 30, 2020

From a Novel Idea to an Essential Technology

Imagine guiding a novice physician in another hospital to accurately acquire and interpret a point-of-care ultrasound exam.

September 30, 2020

EUS Research Roadmap - Part 1

The Institute of Medicine estimated that 17 years are required to pass before 14% of effective interventions reach the bedside.

September 30, 2020

From the Chair

This likely my last Chair’s Corner before turning over the reins to the uber-competent, experienced and engaged Dr. Penelope (Penny) Lema.

June 12, 2020

Evolution of the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section

See the evolution!

June 12, 2020

Venous Doppler and IV Fluid Administration

As emergency physicians, we have all seen this time and time again: a febrile and tachycardic patient arrives to the ED, gets flagged as “sepsis,” and a bolus of 30 mL/kg of normal saline is ordered i...

June 12, 2020

Update on the Current PA and NP EUS Literature

Increasing numbers of PAs and NPs are learning and incorporating Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) into their clinical practice.

June 12, 2020

Ultrasound in COVID Across the Globe: Global Insights from the Web

With the spread of the novel coronavirus across the globe, physicians around the world are uniting to work together to try to combat this pandemic.

June 12, 2020

Technology CMUT - Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasound Transducers: A Primer

Capacitive micromachined ultrasound transducers (CMUTs) are micro-electromechanical systems that convert electrical energy into sound waves.

June 12, 2020

Military Telemedicine: The Future is Telesonography in Prolonged Field Care

In 2004, a modern-day military telemedicine platform was created to provide an asynchronous consultation service to support the medical units deployed during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

June 12, 2020

Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19

ACEP Ultrasound Sonoguide Subcommittee For the past three months, there have been almost daily publications and expert opinion pieces on various aspects of COVID-19. One particular feature causing muc...

June 12, 2020

Low-Level Disinfection of Your Ultrasound Machine During the Pandemic: Which Wipe Should I Wipe With?

Currently the world is facing a pandemic due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the cause of COVID-19.

June 12, 2020

From the Chair

Hello ACEP Ultrasound Section Members The last time I wrote the “Chairs Corner” was back in February and the word “Covid” did not appear in it once. It’s shocking how our worlds could be so different ...