Clinical Sonography and ICU...

Hi Everyone,

I'm very excited to be part of the newly re-branded Clinical Sonography Blog at TOH, big thanks to Dr. Michael Woo and Dr. James Worrall.

I'll be posting content with a specific focus on the ICU branch of point-of-care ultrasound, and will be collaborating with the ED group as well as other users of POCUS. A few announcements / reminders:

1) Remember POCUS rounds will be next Thursday:
Topic: A case of chest pain - Illustrative POCUS in the ED to the Floor to the ICU
Date: Thursday January 23, 2013
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Coughlin Room (EM Conference Room) - Civic Campus - ground floor near F elevators (melrose entrance)

For those who can't attend - don't worry! A recording of the talk with be posted on this blog. In future, the rounds will be teleconferenced to the General.

2) Twitter
Twitter fans can follow this blog at: twitter.com/ClinSonoOttawa 

3) Facebook
Facebook users can follow this blog at: www.facebook.com/ClinSonoOttawa 

4) Qpath
There will be lots of info forthcoming about Qpath, our new hospital-wide wireless archiving system for POCUS.

Thanks everyone, and please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions...

Scott

Welcome to ClinSonoOttawa!

We are changing the name of this blog!

To encourage collaboration with other departments at the University of Ottawa, this blog will be renamed.  Look for lots of great stuff in 2014!

EMUS Journal Club Dec 11, 2013

Are residents with limited US training able to reliably perform EM compression DVT Scans? This weeks journal article looks at one prospective study by Jang et al.

Jang, T. Resident-performed Compression Ultrasonography for

the Detection of Proximal Deep Vein Thrombosis: Fast

and Accurate. Acad Emerg Med. Mar 2004;11:319-322.

Journal Club, November 6 2013

Here is this month's article for EMUS journal club:

Bedside ultrasound and the assessment of renal
colic: a review

Peregrine James Dalziel, Vicki Elizabeth Noble

Emerg Med J (2012). doi:10.1136/emermed-2012-201375

This article is freely available online.

Journal club will be at 9:15 am at the Civic

EMUS Ottawa Journal Club - October 9, 2013

This week we explore the use of Ultrasound for the diagnosis of pediatric elbow fractures.  Will it stand up to Xray as a useful modality in this setting? Ribiner and the crew may hold the answer...

Accuracy of Point-of-Care Ultrasonography for Diagnosis of Elbow Fractures in Children. Annals of Emergency Medicine. 2013;61(1):9-17.