A watershed week this week…

with Suean actually able to break through international borders and head to the USA and the AIUM conference for the first time in over 2 years. Quite exciting to be able to catch up with everyone face-to-face, and present, sans Zoom!

Another busy week in the ultrasound world, with echo dominating the space this week.

In light of the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, we would like to highlight the efforts of Dr Kasia Hampton and her GoFundMe campaign designed to deliver medical assistance on the ground. Please consider helping if you can. You can read more about Kasia and her campaign here.

As always, if there’s something on the horizon that you’d like added to our weeklywrap let us know – always here to help.

See you next week.

Mike and Suean

P.S. – last week’s Coaching Corner will be available free online soon. In the meantime check out the entire back catalogue here.

https://twitter.com/KasiaHamptonMD/status/1500148108939997192?s=20&t=pVdzBGvhBaiB5Q8WqOYGGw

11 March

Thread 1/n #POCUS case – (?) COVID – cured by metoprolol. Acute dyspnea with cough, referral as ? COVID-19 with CXR. Sinus rhythm 120/min, RR 40/min, Sats 68% RA, 93% with O2 15 lpm by NRBM. pic.twitter.com/F69mDJplBW

— drshukla14 (@DrShukla14) March 10, 2022

#POCUS #lungultrasound
👉 https://t.co/xZSrHNAhFS @WilliamMansonMD @rosie_hogg 🙏
Stay tuned…. Many & more to come @ASRA_Society …..POCUS Spotlight articles! @RubbleEM @ria_dancel @AdairaLandryMD @POCUS_Society @IMPOCUSFocus @UAlberta_Sono @DRsonosRD @katiewiskar @adstengel pic.twitter.com/dCo9jd1bw6

— Hari (హరి) 🩺 Kalagara 🇮🇳 (@KalagaraHari) March 10, 2022

10 March

Hey #POCUS world!

Here is our Mini-Review with @WBeaubien on this recent article by Cid-Serra et al (Dec 2021, JAMA-Open).

Podcast: https://t.co/oA0ObRi9Eq
Article: https://t.co/anqT9fWGkz

Hope you enjoy this short take on it!

— SonoVault (@SonoVault) March 9, 2022

Recurrent DVT? Check out this week's #ultrasound lecture by @mtabbut about May-Thurner Syndrome.https://t.co/kuuN8VlAQ3#MetroEUS#FOAMed #FOAMus #MedTwitter #POCUS pic.twitter.com/4k4PmgFCmS

— MetroHealth Emergency Ultrasound (@MH_EMultrasound) March 9, 2022

For #Nephrology #VeXUS #FOAMcc 50's FM c sudden dyspnea. See thread. @NephroP @ArgaizR @msiuba @siddharth_dugar @katiewiskar @ThinkingCC @khaycock2 @pdsalinas @msenussiMD @IMCrit @TaotePOCUS @easypocus @iceman_ex @KalagaraHari #FOAMed #FOAMus #POCUS @ACEP_EUS @jminardi21 pic.twitter.com/HMUkwYopLN

— Robert Jones, DO (@RJonesSonoEM) March 9, 2022

9 March

Missed our last #CCUS #POCUS rounds ("Interesting cases")? See here for our recorded rounds – volume status, shock https://t.co/9IhsKr2PMF @UAlberta_ICU @UAlberta_FoMD @NephroP @katiewiskar @iceman_ex @zedunow @icmteaching @ThinkingCC @leonbyker #SavingLivesWithSound pic.twitter.com/NKA39mkXwp

— Alberta Sono (@UAlberta_Sono) March 8, 2022

Calling all #POCUS fans, and #criticalcare 💓 afficionados! Asking if we have the right tools to identify RV dysfunction (RVD) in ICU?? We took an unbiased view (paper link at end of a long thread 🧵)…. pic.twitter.com/Yl10LtAzrY

— 🇵🇸Mansoor Bangash (@bangash_mansoor) March 9, 2022

Echocardiography

The diagnostic performance of lung ultrasound for detecting COVID-19 in emergency departments: A systematic review and meta-analysis

World J Crit Care Med

Point-of-care ultrasound for critically-ill patients: A mini-review of key diagnostic features and protocols

@TCTMD

Routine IVUS in Peripheral Interventions Supported by Small RCT

@PLOSOne

Echocardiographic left ventricular stroke work index: An integrated noninvasive measure of shock severity

8 March

#POCUS lungs maybe useful to assess effect of lung recruitment manoeuvre in ARDS https://t.co/roUGsdpoOC

— Dr George Ntoumenopoulos #IStandWithUkraine 🇺🇦 (@georgentou1) March 8, 2022

Ultrasound Quarterly

An Exploratory Study Into a New Head Ultrasound Marker for Predicting Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants

@BioMedCentral BMC Medical Education

A real-time video-based social network platform for online ultrasound education

@AIUMUltrasound The Scan

Duplex Ultrasound in Arterial Disease in Patients With Critical Limb Ischemia

7 March

Ultrasound Quarterly

Comparison of Ultrasound Features With Maximum Standardized Uptake Value Assessed by 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography for Prognosis of Estrogen Receptor+/Human Epithelial Growth Factor Receptor 2− Breast Cancer

 

Radiology Case Reports

Quadruplet heterotopic pregnancy; ectopic managed successfully with laparotomy with subsequent viable intrauterine pregnancy: A case report

@PedCritCareMed

Strain Echocardiography and Myocardial Dysfunction in Critically Ill Children With Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Unrecognized by Conventional Echocardiography: A Retrospective Cohort Analysis

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

The correlation between severity scores in computed tomography lung scans and viral load in the severity of novel coronavirus 2019 progression

@eScholarship

Identification of Spontaneous Shoulder Hemarthrosis with Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Emergency Department

@eScholarship

A Rare Cause of Chest Pain Identified on Point-of-care Echocardiography: A Case Report

@eScholarship

Valsalva Retinopathy Masking as a Retinal Detachment on Point-of-care Ocular Ultrasound: A Case Report

6 March

Want to learn how to make this reusable ultrasound-guided cric training model? Dr. Thomas Lawyer & @javimedsimus from @UCFEMOrlando discuss all the steps here: https://t.co/qouoaMjM3m

#POCUS @NagdevArun @PennyLema @MGottliebMD @sonositu @ACEPNow @SAEMAEUS

— ACEP Ultrasound (@ACEP_EUS) March 6, 2022

The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine

Is it time for midwives to do intrapartum ultrasound in the delivery ward?

@Cureus

Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Diagnosis and Pain Control of Sternal Fracture

Echocardiography Journal

Complex connections: A young man presenting with shortness of breath, hypoxemia, right lumbar pain and left limb swelling

Echocardiography Journal

Effect of the number of parity on right heart chamber quantification

5 March

<🏆High-quality article sharing😊>
Examining the #diagnostic accuracy of #ultrasonography to detect any HS (#steatotichepatocytes ≥ 5% on histology) and moderate-severe HS (steatotic hepatocytes ≥ 30% on histology) by performing #metaanalysis.

📚🔗https://t.co/3EoaogSdoW pic.twitter.com/bkx26bSKFc

— Metabolism and Target Organ Damage (@MetabolismAnd) March 4, 2022

Great conference by @uncimchiefs and @ria_dancel on how to use POCUS to perform safer LVPs. Here's a quick step by step guide for use in our @UNCDeptMedicine procedure clinic. #POCUS pic.twitter.com/KoR03E5up5

— Erin Finn (@efinnamazing) March 4, 2022

65 y/o male, hx of left inguinal hernia, presents w/ left groin pain & fatigue. Pt afebrile but tachycardic, w/ erythematous bulge in left groin. See how #POCUS identified extensive deep vein thrombosis, expediting diagnosis of May-Thurner syndrome: https://t.co/ynLzRLnylX #MEDed pic.twitter.com/yECXSwYDng

— POCUS Journal (@POCUSJournal) March 4, 2022

https://t.co/RQo6gSpGl7@ria_dancel @Wilkinsonjonny @iceman_ex @kyliebaker888 @NephroP @msiuba @IM_Crit_ @UAlberta_Sono @katiewiskar

— Ashley Miller (@icmteaching) March 4, 2022

@WestJEM

Point-of-care Lung Ultrasound Is Useful to Evaluate Emergency Department Patients for COVID-19

@WestJEM

Point-of-care Ultrasound in Morbidity and Mortality Cases in Emergency Medicine: Who Benefits the Most?

@DovePress

Nomogram Incorporating Multimodal Transvaginal Ultrasound Assessment at 20 to 24 Weeks’ Gestation for Predicting Spontaneous Preterm Delivery in Low-Risk Women

 

@ISUOG

Real-time identification of fetal anomalies on ultrasound using artificial intelligence: what’s next?

@Cureus

Intraoperative Epicardial Ultra-High Frequency Ultrasound in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery

@DovePress

The Analgesic Efficacy of Ultrasound-Guided Bilateral Transversus Thoracic Muscle Plane Block After Open-Heart Surgeries: A Randomized Controlled Study