2017 POCUS Course - Registration Now Live!

Hi  Everyone,

Registration for the 2017 POCUS Course is now live!

http://www.med.uottawa.ca/cme/eng/event_point_of_care.html

Don't hesitate to contact me with any questions...

Scott

PoCUS Imaging Archiving Requirements update

For all PoCUS users in the TOH Emergency Department, we have uploaded our Imaging Archiving Requirements document.

This is must-know information on the required images to make a clinical decision based on your scans.  It also tells you which images must be saved in QPath, for training and clinical purposes.

The link is here:


Image Archiving Requirements - v2 - Jan 2017

The limits of IVC ultrasound

Hello Friends,

Here's a talk I gave about how I feel that using the IVC to assess volume responsiveness is actually completely useless...

Cheers
Scott

2017 POCUS Course Announced!

Hi Everyone,

After the great success of the 2015 and 2016 courses, I'm please to announce the 2017 course will be help on Thursday September 7 & Friday September 8, 2017.

See below for details, and email OttawaPOCUS@gmail.com to get on the waiting list!

Scott

Cardiology Academic Day - POCUS for Cardiology

The EMUS group proudly presents Grand Rounds for the Department of Emergency Medicine.

 

 

DATE:              Thursday, November 5^th, 2015

 

TIME:               09:00 – 10:00

 

LOCATION:      Amphitheatre – Civic Campus

PRESENTERS:   Arguing for: Team Pageau

-Dr.  Badar Al Hamrashdi & Dr. Sze Joo Juan

 

Arguing against: Team Worrall

- Dr. Noman Khan & Dr. Frank Myslik

 

TOPIC:             POCUS is standard of care in Emergency Medicine

 

OBJECTIVES:

 

Participants will be able to:

- Compare and contrast POCUS as standard of care 

- Decide on the use of POCUS in their own practice

 

2016 Eastern Ontario POCUS Course Announced!

Hi Everyone,

After the great success of the 2015 course (photos will be uploaded soon), I'm please to announce the 2016 course will be help on July 5 &6, 2016.

See below for details, and email POCUS2015@gmail.com to get on the waiting list!

Scott

Ottawa POCUS Course - Registration now live!

Ottawa POCUS Course - Registration now live!

Hi Everyone,

Registration for the Ottawa POCUS Course (Sept 17/18, 2015) is now live!

The link to register is:
https://events.cmeuottawa.ca/website/index/110081

See brochure here:
http://clinsonoottawa.blogspot.ca/p/pocus-course-2015.html

Spread the word!

Cheers

Scott

ULTRAROUNDS!

Our next multidisciplinary POCUS rounds will be held:

Wednesday March 11 at noon.

Civic McCoy room (host)

ICU General Classroom (videoconference)

We'll be reviewing interesting POCUS cases form the ED and ICU over the past month.   

See you there!

Scott

ULTRAROUNDS!

Our next multidisciplinary POCUS rounds will be held:

Wednesday Feb 18 at noon.

Civic McCoy room (host)

ICU General Classroom (videoconference)

We'll be reviewing interesting POCUS cases form the ED and ICU over the past month.   

See you there!

Scott

EDE 3!!!

I just got home from the amazing EDE3 course, held in Sun Peaks Resort, BC.  Lots of new ultrasound skills I will be putting into practice, including advanced nerve blocks, more advanced cardiac, volume responsiveness, testicular, appendix, and more.

Congrats to Greg Hall and his team for pushing us further.

www.edeblog.com

James

UltraRounds - Dec 10, 2014 @ noon!

Hi Everyone,

In our never ending quest to find the best time for ultrasound rounds (ultrarounds?), we're going to give Wednesdays at noon a whirl. As usual, we'll be digging into the Qpath archives and pulling out the interesting cases we've captured since last time.

Don't miss it!
Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
Noon to 13:00.
Civic - McCoy Room (near the ICU); host site.
General - ICU Conference Room; teleconference.

Cheers,

Scott

Ottawa POCUS Course

Announcing the 2015 Ottawa POCUS Course: Save the date!

See the poster below for more information.
More information will be posted here as it becomes available, including registration info.
If you would like more information, please email POCUS2015@gmail.com.
See you there!

Scott

POCUS Rounds June 17, 2014

Hi Everyone,

Our most recent POCUS rounds is now up!
Check out the "POCUS Rounds" page (top right).
Email me for the password...

Cheers
Scott

POCUS Research

We had a very successful POCUS research year. Congratulations to all the staff and residents on their projects!

Here are the following projects that were presented at our annual DEM research day:

Dr. Mark Taylor (Woo, McInnes, Pageau, Watterson, Thompson, Perry)
Ultrasonography for the prediction of surgical intervention in renal colic patients

Dr. Lindsey Forest (Pageau, Worrall, Calder)
Diagnosis in the Fast Lane: the use of point-of-care ultrasound by the Ottawa Hospital Emergency Physicians for the diagnosis of ectopic pregnancy

Dr. Nathan Hecht (Woo, Hurley, Stitt,  Pageau, Worrall, Reardon, Taylor, Thiruganasambandamoorthy)
Test characteristics of point-of-care ultrasonography for the diagnosis of acute posterior ocular pathology in emergency department patients
Also presented at: CAEP Annual Conference - Ottawa; ICEM Annual Conference - Hong Kong; Canadian Ophthalmalogical Society - Halifax.

Dr. Ashley Krywenky (Pageau, Bidlake, Woo, Spacek, Vaillancourt)
Barriers and facilitators to integrating point-of-care ultrasonography into the emergency medicine clinical clerkship

Dr. Brandon Ritcey (Pageau, Woo, Perry)
Femoral nerve blocks and fascia iliaca blocks for emergency department patients with femoral neck and hip fractures: a systematic review

Other presentations:
Dr. Robert Ohle (McIsaac, Woo, Perry)
Ultrasonography of the optic nerve sheath diameter for the detection of raised intracranial pressure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
CAEP Annual Conference - Ottawa

Dr. Hasan Alzahrani (Woo, Johnson, Pageau, Millington, Thiruganasambandamoorthy)
Can a simplified two view echocardiogram screen for severe aortic stenosis?
CAEP Annual Conference - Ottawa

Dr. Michael Woo (Bradley, Moore, Liew, Lalonde, Stiell)
Pilot prospective cohort study for the use of ultrasound guided 3 in  1 femoral nerve blocks in a tertiary care emergency department in patients presenting with a hip fracture.
CAEP Annual Conference - Ottawa

POCUS Rounds

Great multi-disciplinary rounds last Tuesday with Critical Care, Emerg, and Cardiology represented!

Bottom lines:

• Look at pleural line to differentiate between cardiogenic vs non cardiogenic B-lines
• Pericardial effusion can appear larger in subxiphoid view
• Need multiple views to determine size of pericardial effusion and sonographic signs of tamponade
• Cardiac tamponade is a clinical diagnosis
• Beware sludge filled gallbladder that can appear like liver and be missed

Want to learn more? Come to POCUS rounds for enlightened multidisciplinary discussion or catch the recorded versions at clinsonoottawa.blogspot.ca

We'll be taking a summer break so next POCUS rounds will be:
Tuesday September 9, 2014 
Civic - McCoy Room (ICU teaching room) with teleconference to General ICU Teaching room
4-5pm

Save the Date!

No indeterminate scans for 1st trimester

Dr. James Worrall explains the differences in interpretation for the primary scans for primary POCUS-EM. In particular, why the safest approach is no indeterminate scans in 1st trimester scanning to rule in pregnancy.

Journal Club May 21, 2014

9:15 at the civic DEM conference room

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemermed.2013.11.102

PATIENT PERCEPTIONS OF ULTRASOUND EDUCATIONAL SCANS IN THE EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT

Katja Goldflam, MD,* Rebecca R. Goett, MD,† Resa E. Lewiss, MD, RDMS,‡ Theodore C. Bania, MD,‡ and Turandot Saul, MD, RDMS‡ 

Canadian Conference on Medical Education April 26, 2014

At CCME, we were invited to the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) Clinical Skills group meeting to talk about Ultrasonography in Undergraduate Medical Education. We managed to assemble National leaders in this area to provide different perspectives.

 Dr. Andrew Smith (Memorial) - evidence for ultrasound in undergraduate medical education

Dr. Adrian Yee (UVic/UBC) - administration considerations

Dr. Irena Ma (UCalgary) - research in undergraduate ultrasonography

Dr. Michael Woo (uOttawa) - medical student perspectives

In addition we had recorded interviews of Dr. Catherine Nix (UToronto/Ireland) and Dr. Peter Steinmetz (McGill) to talk about their respective programs with an additional presentation by Dr. John Lewis (McGill).

It was a fantastic occasion to learn about how many things in common we have and also the diversity in the programs to accomplish the same goal of integrating ultrasonography into undergraduate medical education. Hopefully this will continue the momentum for a national curriculum!

I hope you enjoy the video!

Thank you to the Class of 2016 uOttawa.

EM Ultrasound Journal Club, April 23

9:15 am at the Civic

American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2014 Feb 17;

Towards a less invasive approach to the early goal-directed treatment of septic shock in the ED.
Daniele Coen, Francesca Cortellaro, Simone Pasini, Valeria Tombini, Angelica Vaccaro, Lorenzo Montalbetti, Michela Cazzaniga, Daniele Boghi

PMID: 24666743