Zedu Weekly Wrap - 22 October 2021

This is exciting…

as we fire up the Zedu HQ and head back to face-to-face teaching – again! After another 80 days shut down (I think it’s 328 in total – lost count) we’re cleaning the whiteboards, powering up the ultrasound and warming the gel.

We’re proud of the way Australians have embraced vaccination, for it has delivered the opportunity for us to enter into a new normal. However we’re all the while aware that the healthcare sector is going to bear the brunt of what’s to come for the foreseeable future. We hope we can do you justice.

Like every week there’s a plethora of ultrasound news to pick from. In this issue a theme emerged – cardiac and regional anesthesia. Plus we recommend checking out the POCUS article in the NEJM summarised by Jose Diaz-Gomez.

And as always – if you have something coming up you’d like to add or a gem we may have overlooked – let us know.

See you next week.

Mike and Suean

P.S. – Suean’s Coaching Corner on B-Mode cardiac imaging has been really popular, topping our YouTube stats. See for yourself – and get ready for next month where we’ll be discussing how to reduce x-ray ordering using POCUS.

22 October

@BMJ_Open

Value of early critical care transthoracic echocardiography for patients undergoing mechanical ventilation: a retrospective study

21 October

A well-timed update #POCUS was necessary given its continued dissemination into many areas of medical practice. The distinctions between POCUS and consultative radiology and cardiology ultrasonography is crucial, but they overlap and are complementary. @SCCM @SCCM_Anesth @ASE360 pic.twitter.com/WAi678l5BC

— José L. Díaz-Gómez, MD, MS, MBA, FASE, FCCM (@Jose_Diaz_Gomez) October 21, 2021

Reaching back in the archives. Check out our latest video about the Abdominal FAST in trauma by @mtabbut. https://t.co/e3HXzkBzCd #POCUS #Ultrasound #Trauma #FOAMed #FOAMus #MedTwitter #EmergencyMedicine pic.twitter.com/Lj7be6BUdQ

— MetroHealth Emergency Ultrasound (@MH_EMultrasound) October 20, 2021

https://twitter.com/chrisciencia1/status/1450927220147560456?s=20

https://twitter.com/chrisciencia1/status/1450922884751298564?s=20

First up for tweet-ucation on this final day of live #CHEST2021 is “The Wave of the Future: Beyond the Ultrasound Basics"! 1/

— Gretchen Winter, MD 🌼 (Warning: Feral) (@gretchemaben) October 20, 2021

@CasefromASE

Biventricular Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy as the Initial Manifestation of a Pheochromocytoma

20 October

@eScholarship

Didelphys Uterus in Pregnancy, an Uncommon Mullerian Duct Anomaly: A Case Report

19 October

#POCUS #CEUS contrast enhanced lung ultrasound and COVID-19 – Alice Tee, Gibran Timothy Yusuf, Adrian Wong, Deepak Rao, Sa Tran, Paul S Sidhu, 2021 https://t.co/A6XEh9EO28

— Adrian Wong (@avkwong) October 18, 2021

Ever performed a TAP block? I rarely do. But after speaking w/ @UAtesseract, I realize my pts have been missing out on a great procedure. Check out our latest podcast!https://t.co/qbMnf8sVAT #FOAMed #POCUS Q-bank: https://t.co/QRqId246qN

Sound & Surf: https://t.co/SWxjbUo2MG pic.twitter.com/QyUUfdM0aN

— Jailyn/Ben (@coreultrasound) October 20, 2021

Basic Echocardiogram Windows on #POCUS https://t.co/4FCjNhD615 #FOAMed #MedEd #FOAMus #cardiotwitter pic.twitter.com/uqNbhcTMl5

— GrepMed (@grepmeded) October 18, 2021

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound is helpful for differentiating benign from malignant parietal pleural lesions

@CASEfromASE

Aortocoronary Saphenous Vein Graft Aneurysm: Diagnosis Using Color Doppler and Contrast Transesophageal Echocardiography

@of_aic

Transesophageal echocardiography for cardiovascular risk estimation in patients with sepsis and new-onset atrial fibrillation: a multicenter prospective pilot study

@CJCJournals

COVID-19 DIAGNOSIS BY POINT OF CARE LUNG ULTRASOUND: A NOVEL DEEP LEARNING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE METHOD

18 October

Good morning #blocktober friends! Today (the 18th) is QL day! We’ll discuss the anterior approach to the QL block, and go over anatomy, sonoanatomy and technique. It’s found a place in our practice for big abdominal cases, but it has a number of other indications too. #DukeRAP pic.twitter.com/hQ5vgKdGfa

— Jeff Gadsden (@jeffgadsden) October 18, 2021

Hey hey its #blocktober 17th! Today we’re looking at the cervical plexus block, a technique that is simple, safe but very effective—awake carotid surgery? No problem! Also a great adjunct for thyroid, clavicle, shoulder and breast surgery. How are YOU using this block? #DukeRAP pic.twitter.com/pMQHo6Qft8

— Jeff Gadsden (@jeffgadsden) October 17, 2021

Post holiday season, @ICUltrasonica, @wilkinsonjonny & I are back to take you through the most most critical clinical questions on #haemodynamics that ultrasound can answer

We’re now on to question 3 of FUSIC HD

’Is the aorta abnormal?’#FUSIC #echofirst #POCUS #FOAMus pic.twitter.com/pusmQIkK0S

— Ashley Miller (@icmteaching) October 18, 2021

45 yo man with several weeks of nasal bridge swelling, episodes of snoring and apnea.
What's your diagnosis?
Answer👉https://t.co/FHJNsNufgx pic.twitter.com/A8UXhk7EAA

— ClinRheumatol (@ClinRheumatol) October 17, 2021

European Journal of Trauma and Emergency Surgery

Prehospital FAST reduces time to admission and operative treatment: a prospective, randomized, multicenter trial

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

The role of left atrial strain in patients with functional tricuspid regurgitation before and after annuloplasty: a long-term follow-up study

@WINFOCUS

Improving hospital-based point-of-care ultrasound cleaning practices using targeted interventions: a pre–post study

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

When echocardiography fails, intravascular ultrasound as an alternative for adequate graft patency in hybrid elephant trunk surgery

Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia

Giant aortic root pseudoaneurysm surrounding the left main coronary artery

17 October

My DVT ultrasound talk #FOAMed #POCUS #FOAMcc #FOAMus ⁦@icmteaching⁩ ⁦@ICUltrasonica⁩ #FUSIC ⁦@sono4you_graz⁩ https://t.co/r3bf26Ej1b

— Jonny Wilkinson (@Wilkinsonjonny) October 17, 2021

⁦Here you go ⁦@curromir⁩ my talk on Lung ultrasound. ⁦@sono4you_graz⁩ with a glitchy frame rate, so I apologise #FOAMed #POCUS #FOAMcc #foamus https://t.co/wtgXtm9EQ3

— Jonny Wilkinson (@Wilkinsonjonny) October 17, 2021

Intraoperative Focused Cardiac Ultrasound for Assessment of Hypotension: A #SystematicReview #POCUS @IARS_Journals https://t.co/fe9fbU7U6j pic.twitter.com/Gr4kFq0FFG

— Emily Sharpe, MD, FASA (@emilysharpe) October 20, 2021

@PedRadJnl

The role of ultrasound in necrotizing enterocolitis