Our advice this week is get your flu shot early…

as it seems 2025 is going to be a bad flu season. We’ve had educators, visitors, learners and patient models alike all hit in one way or another – just in time for school holidays 🙁 While everyone here that has been impacted are on the mend, the warning is out – we don’t wish it on anyone!

Highlights from the ultrasound news in this week’s issue 🚀✨

• Why and how counting ribs using ultrasound is importasnt from Amit Pawa (8 April)
• Amazing research happening at Delft University who have been able to image capillaries and cells in living organs with ultrasound (5 April).

PLUS – be sure to keep an eye on our socials for the latest ‘What are we scanning?’ series – we’ve taken everyday items and scanned away – and had a lot of fun putting these together.

Now we’re working our way to an extended long weekend period next week – ANZAC + Easter = a monster break for everyone. Can’t wait…

Mike and Suean

11 April

Journal of Clinical Medicine

A Practical Approach to Multimodality Imaging in Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy

 

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Make 2025 your year of ultrasound and check out our range of
scheduled and one-on-one options that will get you scanning like a pro.

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10 April

In your experience how long would it take to achieve competency in lung #ultrasound interpretation? This recent research indicates two hours may be enough. Thoughts? Join the conversation… www.facebook.com/groups/23205… #POCUS #ultrasoundtraining

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— Zedu Ultrasound Training (@zedunow.bsky.social) 10 April 2025 at 12:39

9 April

World Journal of Emergency Surgery

Online extended focused assessment with sonography for trauma (EFAST) course enhanced knowledge and perceived confidence among medical trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic disaster

WFUMB

Increased Mechanical Index Improves Shear Wave Elastography: Pilot Study of Signal Enhancement

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Exploring Divergent Electrodiagnostic and Sonographic Findings in Patients With Suspected Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Role of Median Nerve Cross-Sectional Area

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8 April

What are we scanning?? 🤷‍♀️

Comment below what you think Simone might be scanning in this video and check in tomorrow for the answer!

🕵️‍♀️CLUE – you’ll find this item in the fridge….and Simone is known for her amazing salads!! pic.twitter.com/UazjInxO3j

— Zedu Ultrasound Training @zedunow@med-mastodon.com (@zedunow) April 8, 2025

US Probe: Suprapatellar Recess Injection for Chronic Knee Pain in the Emergency Department – An Effective Approach for Relief by Abdo Zeinoun#FOAMed #FOAMtox #FOAMus #FOAMped @EMhighAK @long_brit @MprizzleERhttps://t.co/JiISujI1G7https://t.co/1FE5lhV73K

— emDOCs Team (@emdocsdotnet) April 7, 2025

Hey Folks If you ever wondered how you can count posterior rib level, check out this video! #RAsky #AnSky #POCUSky Counting Ribs With Ultrasound youtu.be/JqbS-eqxEss

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— Amit Pawa (@dr-amit-pawa.bsky.social) 8 April 2025 at 06:43

Echocardiography

An unseen window: Incidental detection of aortopulmonary window in Tetralogy of Fallot: A case report

7 April

Pediatric Pulmonology

Cardiac Echocardiography Findings in Previously Healthy Hospitalized Children With Bronchiolitis – a Retrospective Study

PLOSOne

A novel approach to studying infective endocarditis: Ultrasound-guided wire injury and bacterial challenge in mice

ASE

Application of an Artificial Intelligence Model to Detect Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction to Handheld Ultrasound Imaging

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Ultrasound as a First-Line Modality for Acute Colonic Diverticulitis: A Prospective Comparison with CT

WINFOCUS

Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction induced by intra-aortic balloon pump in patient with angioedema

 

Dynamic left ventricular outflow tract obstruction induced by intra-aortic balloon pump in patient with angioedema

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6 April

The key to mastering TEE?
✅ Have a system ✅ Be efficient ✅ Prioritize high-yield views ✅ Move quickly, but don’t rush.
Master the method in this episode: https://t.co/feF6oz8AWd https://t.co/aHw3Y4hB1L https://t.co/ZX3Trb6ZyY #TEE #POCUS pic.twitter.com/YpVBG7Jdeo

— TEE Time Podcast (@TEETime_Podcast) April 5, 2025

5 April

It’s been a while since I posted a case. But this image has so much going on it was hard to resist.
The patient insisted I used the clips for teaching, which is always nice!
Have a look at the view, taken mid anterior. There had been a complication after thoracic surgery:#FOAMus pic.twitter.com/XV2ViUigWR

— ʇɟıɥsI̍CͨMͫpɐɹɐd ≆ Dr Justin Kirk-Bayley (@PARADicmSHIFT) April 3, 2025

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Multimodality Imaging to Understand Mechanisms of Right Ventricular Disease

European Heart Journal

Grading valve regurgitation by AI is solved: What’s next?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

OVARIAN TORSION IN PREPUBERTAL GIRLS : CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS, BIOLOGICAL AND RADIOLOGICAL FEATURES, RECCURENCY RATE.

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Pediatric Rapid Ultrasound for Shock and Hypotension Phenotype Differentiation in the Emergency Department: Evaluation of Feasibility and Reliability in a Malawi Cohort

Delft University of Technology

Revealing capillaries and cells in living organs with ultrasound