Emergency Ultrasound Newsroom

March 12, 2020

Become Accredited!

This accreditation system promotes the goals of quality, patient safety, communication, responsibility, and clarity regarding the use of clinical point-of-care ultrasound.

March 8, 2020

Tech Update: Artificial Intelligence

Major trends in ultrasound technology that have seriously influenced and changed the terrain of medicine include the improvement of ultrasound workflow through the reduction of processing times, the r...

March 7, 2020

Fellows’ Section: Diastology at the Bedside

A 60-year-old female with a history of hypertension and COPD presents to the emergency department with shortness of breath and cough.

March 7, 2020

Cases that Count: Using FOCUS (Focused Cardiac Ultrasound) to identify an atrial myxoma in the Emergency Department

A 36-year-old undomiciled male with a history of treated hepatitis C and former intravenous drug use (IVDU) presented to the emergency department (ED) with three days of worsening dyspnea and substern...

March 7, 2020

Special Commentary:The Bigger Picture: Beware of the Pseudo-Lung Point

The confidence and acclaims of lung ultrasound are unmistakable. However, when the junior resident performing the eFAST shouts out “left-sided lung point sign” and excitedly reaches for the thoracosto...

March 7, 2020

Tips & Tricks: Supracondylar Fractures and POCUS

Elbow injuries are a common presenting complaint to the pediatric emergency department. Radiographic imaging is often obtained for evaluation of suspected fractures.

March 7, 2020

Tips and Tricks: Time is Testicle - Mastering the Testicular Ultrasound Exam

Acute scrotal pain makes up approximately 0.5% of all emergency department complaints.

March 7, 2020

Chair’s Corner

I find it somewhat astounding that despite living in Philadelphia the most snow I’ve seen this year was the intense snowstorm during Denver ACEP.

September 21, 2019

Get Your US Program Accredited!

Join your colleagues and get your Ultrasound Program accredited. This accreditation system promotes the goals of quality, patient safety, communication, responsibility, and clarity regarding the use o...

September 20, 2019

Tips and Tricks: US-Guided Subclavian Vein

Central venous catheters play an important role in the care of critically ill patients.

September 11, 2019

Tech Update: Stick it To Me Straight Doc

Recently, the ultrasound community has seen a great debate spanning across various social media outlets, email, and academic arenas about the use of Tegaderm and its potential for damaging and degradi...

September 10, 2019

Cases That Count: Headache

Questions: What are the findings of this point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) exam? What is the differential diagnosis for these findings? What additional testing would help confirm the etiology for these...

September 6, 2019

Pediatric Ultrasound: Developing a Pediatric Focused Point-of-Care Ultrasound Workshop

Pediatric applications in Point-of-Care Ultrasound The importance of specialized training in pediatric point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is often underappreciated by emergency medicine providers. There...

September 4, 2019

International US: POCUS Training in Liberia

In many institutions across the United States, emergency medicine (EM) is the spark to ignite point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education throughout the hospital, leading or collaborating in training a...

September 4, 2019

Resident Education: Obstacles to Performing Ultrasound at the Bedside

Emergency medicine residents may not always be as inspired as faculty would like them to be when it comes to performing bedside ultrasounds.

September 2, 2019

Chair’s Corner

Summer’s coming to a close and Fall’s just around the corner. It’s the start of a new school year and, for ACEP members, it’s back to the Annual Scientific Assembly.

July 3, 2019

Ask The Expert: Optic Nerve Sheath Diameter and Intracranial Pressure

In 2001, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated that all emergency medicine (EM) residents be competent in emergency ultrasound (EUS). In 2012, the Emergency Medicin...

June 21, 2019

Tips and Tricks: Using Ultrasound to Ace Your Next Lumbar Puncture

Lumbar puncture (LP) is a commonly-performed procedure in the Emergency Department (ED), with a failure rate as high as 50% (particularly in pediatric and obese patient populations).

June 18, 2019

Updates from the Advanced Practice Provider Subcommittee

Currently, the Advanced Practice Provider (APP) subcommittee has been focused on addressing the most current request we receive from both physicians and APPs: how to get APPs privileged to utilize eme...

June 17, 2019

Critical Care Updates: Two Views to Save Lives: Transesophageal Echocardiography for Peri-Arrest and Cardiac Arrest Patients

Although transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has long been used to help diagnose valvular heart disease, wall-motion abnormalities, strain, and cardiac outflow, it has been recently shown to have s...

June 14, 2019

Cases That Count: Rapid Bedside Diagnosis of a Rare but Dangerous Diagnosis

A 35-year-old G2P1001 woman (6 weeks 1 day pregnant by last menstrual period) presented to the emergency department at midnight with abdominal pain.

June 13, 2019

Ask The Expert: What makes a successful ultrasound education program?

In 2001, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated that all emergency medicine (EM) residents be competent in emergency ultrasound (EUS).

June 3, 2019

Chair’s Corner

It’s heating up outside which means that emergency medicine residency training programs hit the refresh button and welcome new trainees and recent graduates now join us as colleagues.

March 27, 2019

Tips and Tricks: Ultrasound Guided Regional Anesthesia of the Hand

Emergency medicine physicians commonly perform painful procedures including laceration repair, reductions of fractures and dislocations, incision and drainage of abscesses and debridement of burns.

March 19, 2019

Fellow’s Corner: Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship Match

2018-2019 is the inaugural year for the Point of Care Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship participation in the Match.

March 18, 2019

Journal Club: Draining an abscess? Ultrasound can probably help

Patients frequently present to the emergency department for the evaluation of soft tissue infection, including cellulitis and abscesses. After the diagnosis of an abscess, clinicians will usually perf...

March 18, 2019

International Ultrasound: Small Bowel Obstruction Secondary to Ascariasis Infection: An Alarming Finding in the Remote Territory of Eastern Honduras

Small bowel obstructions (SBO) are a common gastrointestinal condition which may require surgical intervention. It is estimated that over 300,000 laparotomies per year are performed in the United Stat...

March 15, 2019

Journal Club: Jugular Venous Compliance to Assess Decompensated Heart Failure

Acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) is one of the most common reasons for admission to the hospital and is increasing in prevalence. Patients presenting with ADHF who cannot be discharged are eit...

March 12, 2019

Updates from the ACEP EUS Resident Education Subcommittee

The Residency Education Subcommittee is prepared for a productive year! We are kickstarting the data collection portion for Mathew Nelson’s revised PC12 milestones project.

March 12, 2019

From the Chair

We’re all familiar with the Dog Days of summer but how about these daylight shortened days of winter?