The Zedu Coaching Corner™ has been created to give you easy access to the secrets of ultrasound.
Learn the tips and tricks to get better images with one of Zedu’s experts – from lung to echocardiography, gallbladder to obstetrics. We’ve got you covered…
Discover how to approach your imaging to have complete clarity and focus! Improve your imaging with expert guidance.
If you like what you see and want more, make your way to the ZeduHQ in Melbourne for some hands-on training.
How To Videos
How to: Scan for early pregnancy loss
How to: Perform the transvaginal ultrasound exam part 2
How to: Work with colour Doppler
How to: Top tips for scanning twins
How to: Maximise your teaching potential
How to: Ultrasound assessment of proximal DVT
How to: Scan for foreign bodies
How to: Evaluate pain & bleeding in the 1st trimester
How to: Choose the right ultrasound machine
How to: Top 10 tips to communicating the probe moves
How to: Performing basic breast ultrasound
How to: Get the most from remote ultrasound coaching
How to: What does it take to become a SEED?
How to: Transvaginal ultrasound
How to: 6 steps to developing ultrasound competency in you or your students
How to: Fetal well-being assessment in the 3rd trimester
How to: B-Mode ultrasound & imaging the heart
How to: Shoulder dislocation POCUS
How to: Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension – the RUSH Exam
How to: ultrasound fractures & hematoma blocks
How to: probe tech, probe care, probe repair
How to: Lumps & Bumps on Ultrasound
How to: Needle Guidance with Ultrasound
How to: Testicular Torsion Ultrasound
How to: Crown Rump Length & Covid-19 Lung Ultrasound
How to: 1st Trimester Ultrasound + Elias Jaffa on POCUS Tech
How to: Common Bile Duct Ultrasound + Image Review
How to: Ovarian Ultrasound – Location, Torsion + Spectral Doppler
How to: Ureteric Jets & Colic, IVC & Patient Position, Bicuspid Aortic Valve
How to: Scan the liver – 10 October 2023
In this month’s Coaching Corner Suean outlines a step-by-step approach you can take to comprehensively scan the liver.
In this video Suean covers:
1. Sonoanatomy of the liver
2. Preparation
3. Conducting the survey scan
4. Technical tips and tricks
5. Imaging sequence
This month we were joined by Marcus Peck, consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Frimley Park Hospital (Surrey, UK), chair of the Intensive Care Society (ICS)’s Focused Ultrasound for Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee, and author of the OUP textbook ‘Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound’.
Recorded Thursday 5 October 2023
How to: Scan for early pregnancy loss – 7 September 2023
In this month’s Coaching Corner Suean outlines a step-by-step approach you can take when faced with a situation of early pregnancy loss.
In this video Suean covers:
1. Normal IUP development
2. Pregnancy failure criteria
3. How to measure MSD and CRL
4. How to use the criteria
5. What to say
Be sure to join our community of clever and share/learn ultrasound teaching techniques on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2320595437975758.
AND If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program.
Recorded Thursday 7 September 2023
How to: Perform the transvaginal ultrasound exam part 2 – 3 August 2023
In this month’s Coaching Corner Suean extends on her first video on TV ultrasound (https://youtu.be/HzA1UvPxIaM) which covered the scanning principles and approach to the scan, and this time discusses a step-by-step approach to performing the scan. Suean covers:
1. A review of important scan principles
2. Communication for the TVUS scan
3. A 7 step approach to performing the TVUS scan
Be sure to tune in the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST for our #coachingcorner.
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Recorded Thursday 3 August 2023
How to: Work with colour Doppler – 1 June 2023
Does optimising your colour Doppler image leave you confounded? The do we have good news.
In this #coachingcorner Suean takes you through a simple 6 step method that will see your reds and blues pop with the right hues. There’a a little bit of algebra, but it’s really all about the angles. Follow along and we’ll get you scanning like a pro.
Be sure to join our community of clever and share/learn ultrasound teaching techniques on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2320595437975758.
AND If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program.
Recorded Thursday 1 June 2023
How to: Top tips for scanning twins – 4 May 2023
Things you can do to make #ultrasound assessment of twins simpler for you, and more comfortable for Mum.
In this episode of the #coachingcorner which conincided with Star Wars Day (May the fourth) Suean took some inspiration from the twins of Luke and Leia to review how you should perform a twin scan in 1st, 2nd and 3rd trimesters. The key is taking a systematic approach…there’s a lot to scan!
Be sure to tune in the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST for our #coachingcorner.
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Recorded Thursday 4 May 2023
How to: Maximise your teaching potential – 6 April 2023
Things you can do to streamline your lesson planning maximise learner outcomes.
In this episode of the #coachingcorner Suean dishes up the secret sauce, providing strategies you can utilise to help you and your student get results faster.
Be sure to join our community of clever and share/learn ultrasound teaching techniques on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2320595437975758.
AND If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program.
Recorded Thursday 6 April 2023
How to: Ultrasound assessment of proximal DVT – 2 March 2023
Scanning proximal DVT can be tricky!
However as with anything ultrasound, the key to evaluating is taking a systematic approach.
In this Coaching Corner Suean takes you through a systematic 5 step method that guides you from groin to calf. By applying this approach, in combination with the 3Ps, you’ll be scanning with ease in no time flat.
PLUS – reference was made to research on the coincidence of cellulitis and DVT. Access the article referred to here: Risk of deep vein thrombosis in patients with cellulitis and erysipelas: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Be sure to tune in the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST for our #coachingcorner.
Join our community of clever – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au.
AND if you have a question, a case you want to share or a paper you are keen to talk about please – join us.
Recorded Thursday 2 March 2023
How to: Scan for foreign bodies – 2 February 2023
Foreign bodies are a pain – for the patient and the treating medical professional. Small and elusive, x-ray is not always the best way to identify and locate a splinter or shard. Ultrasound is a powerful tool and the imaging the mode of choice as it can be used to detect, localise and remove foreign bodies simultaneously.
In this edition of the Coaching Corner Suean shares her trademark 5-step approach to getting the best images of foreign bodies small and large, and the tips and tricks that will help you remove those pesky penetrations.
If you’d like to learn more about our ultrasound courses visit the Zedu website – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au/
And be sure to tune in to the #coachingcorner – the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST.
PLUS – why not join our community of clever and share/learn ultrasound teaching techniques on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/groups/2320595437975758.
AND don’t forget – if you have a question, a case you want to share or a paper you are keen to talk about please – log on.
If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program.
Recorded Thursday 2 February 2023
How to: Evaluate pain & bleeding in the 1st trimester – 3 November 2022
Do you struggle in the asessment of 1st trimester pregnancy? Do you lack confidence when presented with evaluating the cause of pain and bleeding?
As with anything ultrasound, the key to evaluating the cause of pain and bleeding in the 1st trimester is knowing normal from abnormal sonographic appearances, and taking a systematic approach.
Learn about IUP, ectopic, miscarriage, indeterminate and PUL presentations, the scanning techniques you should use, and a 4 step process you can take to focus your approach to assessing for the causes of pain and bleeding.
Be sure to tune in the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST for our #coachingcorner.
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Recorded Thursday 3 November 2022
How to: Choose the right ultrasound machine – 6 October 2022
Are you considering buying an ultrasound system but confused at the options? What if I told you that answering 4 key questions would give you an answer in less than 5 minutes?
Learn how in this edition of the Coaching Corner as I share
– The four key questions you can ask to ensure you select the best system for your needs
– The finer points of system selection
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Recorded Thursday 6 October 2022
How to: Top 10 tips to communicating the probe moves – 1 September 2022
Suean shares the secret sauce you can add to your ultrasound training – starting with communicating the probe moves.
Explicitly treaching the probe moves is more often than not overlooked – considered too easy and/or self evident. But it is so important and there is no shortcut to avoiding it.
Suean shares the ten top tips she employs that you can use in your own teaching to avoid cognitive overload in your learners and accelerate the development of your learners.
Be sure to tune in the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST for our #coachingcorner.
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Recorded Thursday 1 September 2022
How to: Performing basic breast ultrasound – 4 August 2022
In this month’s Coaching Corner brought to you live from the outback of Australia (Longreach), Suean discusses the tips, tricks and techniques of basic breast #ultrasound assessment – with a big thanks to our sonographer educator extraodinaire Jacqui Terry for development work on this.
Learn basic breast anatomy, how to acquire images in a systematic way, the unique language assocaited with breast imaging, how to troubleshoot and the ever present issue of ergonomics.
If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program.
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Recorded Thursday 4 August 2022
How to: Get the most from remote ultrasound coaching – 2 June 2022
In this month’s Coaching Corner, Suean shares her experiences of #pocus teaching from a distance, and how to get the most from remote #ultrasound coaching…
– How do you do it?
– What are the pros & cons?
– What are the tips & tricks?
If you’d like to learn more about transvaginal ultrasound join our course – more information here – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au/obstetrics-gynaecology/transvaginal-ultrasound/
If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au/courses/train-the-ultrasound-trainer/
Be sure to tune in the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST for our #coachingcorner.
Join our community of clever – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au.
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Recorded Thursday 2 June 2022
How to: What does it take to become a SEED? – 5 May 2022
In this month’s Coaching Corner, Suean and friends discuss what it means and what it takes to be a SEED – Sonographer Educator in the Emergency Department.
Learn what a SEED actually is, what the role involves and the type of ultrasound examinations you will need to master in order to teach others. Hear what the differences are between ‘traditional’ radiology ultrasound and Emergency Department ultrasound. Understand the steps you will need to take to make the transition from Sonographer to Sonographer Educator in the ED.
If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program.
Recorded Thursday 5 May 2022
How to: Transvaginal ultrasound – 7 April 2022
In this month’s Coaching Corner – our highest ever subscribed – Suean discusses the tips, tricks and techniques of transvaginal ultrasound assessment.
Learn how to understand the images you see on a trransvaginal probe, the probe movements and how to troubleshoot, the scanning approach PLUS the tricky question of how to find the ovaries. We also cover the issue of consent and scanning injury avoidance (ergonomics).
If you’d like to learn more about transvaginal ultrasound join our course – more information here – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au/obstetrics-gynaecology/transvaginal-ultrasound/
If you’d like to learn more about how to be a better ultrasound trainer join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer program – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au/courses/train-the-ultrasound-trainer/
Be sure to tune in the first Thursday of each month, 7:30pm AEST for our #coachingcorner.
Join our community of clever – https://www.ultrasoundtraining.com.au.
AND if you have a question, a case you want to share or a paper you are keen to talk about please – join us.
Recorded Thursday 7 April 2022
How to: Fetal well-being assessment in the 3rd trimester – February 2022
In this month’s Coaching Corner Suean discusses fetal well-being assessment in the third trimester. From amniotic fluid assessment, maximum vertical pool, oligohydramnios and polyhydramnios and Doppler, this session guides you through the how-to of well-being assessment.
With tips and tricks, cases and learning pearls there is something for everyone. And as always this is followed up by a live Q&A.
Recorded Thursday 3 February 2022
How to: Improve Your Ultrasound Teaching: 7 Top Tips – 2 December 2021
In this month’s Coaching Corner Suean shares 7 top tips that will help you improve your ultrasound teaching skills. Drawing on her years of experience teaching everyone from novice sonographers to Professors in Intensive Care, Suean provides insight into how ultrasound training can be broken down to make teaching simpler and learning faster learning. With tips and tricks, cases and learning pearls there is something for everyone. And as always this is followed up by a live Q&A. .
Recorded Thursday 2 December 2021
How to: Reduce x-ray ordering with ultrasound
In this month’s Coaching Corner emergency physician and ultrasound guru Allan Whitehead walks through a number of cases that illustrate how ultrasound can reduce or replace x-rays.
Allan makes the case that there are clear examples and common presentations/procedures – in an emergent and post-procedural context – where ultrasound should be your ‘go-to’ imaging modality. Whether it’s investigating chest pain and trauma, fractures and dislocations, or procedural – ultrasound can do it faster and better than x-ray. If nothing else, ultrasound should always be by your side for clavicular fractures and pleural taps…
With tips and tricks, cases and learning pearls there is something for everyone. And as always this is followed up by a live Q&A.
Recorded Thursday 4 November 2021
How to: B-Mode ultrasound & imaging the heart
In this month’s Coaching Corner Suean discusses how you can optimise your B-Mode images of the heart. Without mastering these basics, your ultrasound images will be suboptimal and advancing your cardiac ultrasound examination skills delayed. With tips and tricks, cases and learning pearls there is something for anyone aspiring to improve their cardiac skills. And as always this is followed up by a live Q&A.
Recorded Thursday 7 October 2021
How to: Forearm nerve block
Forearmed is forewarned – especially when it comes to regional anaesthesia.
In this month’s Coaching Corner we’re joined by Dr Elias Jaffa who discusses how you can perform forearm blocks with ultrasound. He outlines a number of tips and tricks you can arm yourself with, highlights the scanning approaches he uses and outlines pearls and pitfalls assocaited with regional anaesthesia. This is followed up by a live Q&A.
Recorded Thursday 2 September 2021
How to: Shoulder dislocation POCUS
In this month’s Coaching Corner we’re joined by Dr Allan Whitehead (FACEM) who takes us through how ultrasound can assist in the confirmation of shoulder dislocation and reduction. He outlines tips and tricks you can use when faced with a shoulder that’s not where it should be, highlights the scanning techniques he uses and goes through a step-by-step demonstration for pain management injections.
Recorded Thursday 5 August 2021
How to: The Pancreas
The pancreas – a tricky little organ that takes some digestion to image.
In this month’s POCUS #coachingcorner Suean guides us through the tips, tricks and techniques you can use to get the best out of your imaging. Brian Doyle, Allan Whitehead and Elias Jaffa share cases, insight and bad dad jokes giving us additional clinical insight. Check it out.
Recorded Thursday 1 July 2021
How to: Renal Colic
Renal colic – when your patient is in pain, ultrasound is the tool you can turn to first.
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner Suean takes you through the anatomy, scanning technique , sonographic signatures, tips & tricks that will have you scanning in no time flat.
Recorded Thursday 3 June 2021
How to: Podiatry Ultrasound
Podiatry is a field taking enormous steps with POCUS.
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner podiatry guru Dr James Ferrie and Podiatric Surgeon Assoc. Prof. Mark Gilheany join Suean to demonstrate the utility of POCUS in an acute and sub-acute setting to screen for significant ankle and foot injury. Through a number of cases James and Mark show how POCUS can make a real difference to diagnosis, patient management and quality of life.
Recorded Thursday 6 May 2021
How to: Appendix Ultrasound
Appendix ultrasound – that pesky little thing located between small and large intestines is a tricky little thing to image.
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner Suean takes you through her trademark step-by-step approach to ultrasound that will be sure to improve your diagnostic technique, finishing with a quick group discussion.
Recorded Thursday 4 March 2021
How to: Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension – the RUSH Exam
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner, the first for 2021…
Suean examines the RUSH exam – starting with history and context, working through how to optimise your approach to imaging the pump, tank and pipes and finishing with a great group discussion and Q&A.
Recorded Thursday 4 February 2021
How to: ultrasound fractures & hematoma blocks
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner, the last for 2020…
Suean talks how to get the most out of your system, techniques and tips to apply when assessing fractures, and delivering pain relief through hematoma blocks.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone – see you next on Thursday 4 February 2021.
Recorded Thursday 3 December 2020
How to: probe tech, probe care, probe repair
The ultrasound probe – an often abused lump of plastic we all take for granted.
In this edition of the POCUS #coachingcorner, Suean talks to Ashley Barker from ProbeLogic (https://probelogic.com.au/), a world leading ultrasound transducer repair and testing company based in Perth.
In this fascinating tour of the ProbeLogic facility, Ashley pulls apart a number of transducers to show us the amazing technology and intricate parts that fit in the palm of our hands. He demonstrates the damage that can be wrought on a probe, what to look for and how to avoid it. If you’re an ultrasound geek like us or simply interested in some really cool tech check this out.
Recorded Thursday 5 November 2020
How to: Lumps & Bumps on Ultrasound
Lumps & bumps on ultrasound – it can be confusing imaging their diverse terrain.
In this edition of the POCUS #coachingcorner:
- Suean focuses on the presentation, sonographic signatures and approach to imaging a range of commonly encountered lumps and bumps – from abscess to sebaceous cysts they’re here.
- Q&A discusses the clinical conundrums faced when practitioners encounter a mystery lump or bump.
Recorded Thursday 1 October 2020
How to: Needle Guidance with Ultrasound
Needle guidance with ultrasound – a core skill whose difficulty is often underrated. Get your preparation, set up and alignment right and you’ll hit your target every time.
In this edition of the POCUS #coachingcorner:
- Suean focuses on what are some of the problems you may encounter with needle guidance and why – whether it’s vascular access or a more advanced procedural application.
- Q&A discusses the problems practitioners have, and the pros and cons of the different types of ultrasound phantoms. Check out our free Phantom Compendium [HERE].
Recorded Thursday 3 September 2020
How to: Testicular Torsion Ultrasound
In this edition of the POCUS #coachingcorner:
- Suean takes you through her trademark step-by-step approach to ultrasound that will be sure to improve your technique
- Joined by somes of Australia’s leading POCUS practitioners, you’ll get practical tips and tricks that will make scanning the testicles easier than you thought.
Recorded Thursday 6 August 2020
How to: Crown Rump Length & Covid-19 Lung Ultrasound
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner:
- Cian McDermott talks about his latest paper on and experiences with Covid-19 – check out his paper Utility of Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19: A Systematic Scoping Review – and a second one he has been involved in Combatting COVID-19: Is Ultrasound an Important Piece in the Diagnostic Puzzle?
- Following on from last time Suean takes you through a step-by-step sequence to improve your CRL
Recorded Thursday 18 June 2020
How to: 1st Trimester Ultrasound + Elias Jaffa on POCUS Tech
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner:
- Elias Jaffa shows us his amazing tech hack – Streambox – & how it can help #POCUS & education in resource ltd environments – check out his website at https://jaffamd.com
- If 1st trimester #ultrasound gives you nightmares Suean takes you through a step-by-step sequence that will improve your sleep
Recorded Thursday 11 June 2020
How to: Common Bile Duct Ultrasound + Image Review
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner:
- The Common Bile Duct – top tips and tricks for this pesky part of the anatomy – it’s not just about gallstones
- A step by step guide to ultrasound image review – recite after me: frequency, depth, focus, gain…and more
Recorded Thursday 4 June 2020
How to: Ovarian Ultrasound – Location, Torsion + Spectral Doppler
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner:
- Finding the ovaries on a transabdominal exam – top tips and tricks
- How do I assess for ovarian torsion?
- The idiot’s guide to spectral Doppler.PLUS some fantastic group discussion including star turns from Brian and Cian.
Recorded Thursday 28 May 2020
How to: Ureteric Jets & Colic, IVC & Patient Position, Bicuspid Aortic Valve
In this week’s POCUS #coachingcorner:
- I’ve learned how to find ureteric jets – how do I integrate this into the assessment of renal colic?
- How important is patient positioning when assessing the IVC? Often dyspnoeic patients can’t lie flat…
- How do I identify a bicuspid aortic valve accurately?
PLUS Jono and Jenny add some great tips of their own.
Recorded Thursday 21 May 2020.
How to: Lung, 4CH Heart, RV Assessment, Aorta
Our inaugural POCUS #coachingcorner – and what a beauty it was.
Great questions from our community of clever ranging from echocardiography to lung:
- Euan asks how you optimise imaging for lung scanning – especially for small pneumothoraces
- Andy examines how to optimise the 4 chamber view in a large patient
- Rebecca Ventures into assessing the RV (see what I did there…)
- Euan explores the pitfalls of scanning the aorta and how these can be avoided
PLUS some fantastic group discussion including star turns from Anthony and Daniela.
Recorded Thursday 14 March 2020.
