Jul 27 2021 49 mins 57
Some useful videos:
Hopefully you found the podcast interesting, but since this is quite a visual topic we have put together some videos to demonstrate some of the pathologies discussed and what they look like on ultrasound:
Want to know how to use ultrasound? This is a whole 45 minute introductory lecture. Although a face-to-face course is really required before you start on patients!
The radiopaedia website is an amazing resource for all things imaging. Their section on POCUS is here.
The Sonosite website has some excellent resources, which you can filter according to specialty, including prehospital using ‘EMS/Air Med/Ambulance’.
Airway
More detail on intubation from 5 minute sono
Breathing
Lung pathologies including PE and pulmonary contusion
Circulation
Free fluid/haemoperitoneum in the RUQ
Pericardial effusion with engorged IVC
Disability
EMCRIT post on use of ultrasound to diagnose raised ICP with ocular sonography
Extremity
Ultrasound guided hip nerve blocks (including femoral and FIB)
Cardiac arrest
Use of ultrasound in cardiac arrest (US)
Further Resources
FAST ultrasound examination as a predictor of outcomes after resuscitative thoracotomy: a prospective evaluation. Kenji Inaba. Ann Surg. 2015
Marik PE, Cavallazzi R. Does central venous pressure predict fluid responsiveness? An updated meta-analysis and a plea for some common sense. Crit Care Med 2013; 41: 1774-81.
Cavallaro F, Sandroni C, Marano C, et al. Diagnostic accuracy of passive leg raising for prediction of fluid responsiveness in adults: systematic review and meta-analysis of clinical studies. Intensive Care Med 2010; 36: 1475-83.
https://theresusroom.co.uk/ultrasound-in-cardiac-arrest/
ResusMe bibliography of PH ultrasound papers
2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism
