What is it about ultrasound you love the most?

Is it the technology, the challenge of learning new and interesting ways it can help you and your patient or is simply the ability to do something cool that a lot of others can’t?

For us it’s the satisfaction of seeing someone that hasn’t picked up a probe get that spark in the AHA moment, where things start to click into place and the fuzz begins to mean something. And everyone here has been re-energised with that experience this week as we work with a new group of sonography students on our fast-track program – with their energy and excitement we think the profession is in  safe hands into the future.

Highlights from this week include a piece on the feasibility of tele-guided patient-administered lung ultrasound (@WINFOCUS), a study that compares Artificial Intelligence (AI) against POCUS experts (@JCM_MDPI) that highlights a combined computer/human effort results in the best outcome, and a fun piece on @JaffaMD who has recently joined the ranks at Yale.

Plus there’s a whole lot more to review – something for everyone.

And please – if you have research, news, views or resources you’d like included in our weekly wrap feel free to reach out any time.

See you next week.

Suean and Mike

P.S. – don’t forget to tune into us on Spotify – we’ve got an ultrasound playlist guaranteed to keep your POCUS rocking!

P.P.S. The recording of the first Coaching Corner for 2023 – covering the tips & tricks you can use to take the pain out of foreign bodies – will be uploaded soon. In the meantime chaeck the back catalogue of ultrasound topics here – there’s someting for everyone.

Get the most out of your teaching moments – join our TRain the UltraSound Trainer (TRUST) course This isn’t a course on how to perform an ultrasound examination or use the technology – it’s designed to give you the teaching tools you’ll need to teach ultrasound on the run. In the words of a previous participant – it’s meta!

6 – 7 May 2023 | 7 – 8 October 2023

10 February

Check out the discussion with @mtabbut and Dr. Ziad Shaman from last week about Ultrasound for Chest Physiotherapy.https://t.co/wyKfRXII0T#MetroEUS #POCUS #Ultrasound #CriticalCare #ChestPhysiotherapy pic.twitter.com/AU8GofoHVB

— MetroHealth Emergency Ultrasound (@MH_EMultrasound) February 9, 2023

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

“Daddy wrist”: A high-resolution ultrasound diagnosis of de Quervain tenosynovitis

@eScholarship

Bilateral Erector Spinae Plane Block for Man o’ War Stings: A Case Report

@eScholarship

Bilateral Tubal Pregnancies Presenting 11 Days Apart: A Case Report

9 February

@WINFOCUS

Feasibility of tele-guided patient-administered lung ultrasound in heart failure

Radiology Case Reports

Large isolated major aortopulmonary collateral artery causing dilated left ventricle

@CASEfromASE

Thrombus in Transit Entrapped Within a Patent Foramen Ovale: Role of Multimodality Imaging

@JCM_MDPI

Artificial Intelligence (AI) versus POCUS Expert: A Validation Study of Three Automatic AI-Based, Real-Time, Hemodynamic Echocardiographic Assessment Tools

@WINFOCUS

Assessment of residual gastric volume using point-of-care ultrasonography in adult patients who underwent elective surgery

8 February

Should critical care TEE become a core diagnostic skill for intensivists? Check out our editorial here: https://t.co/oATVCIzug9@journal_CHEST Thanks to @arntfield & Craig Ainsworth. #foamed #pocus #foamus

— Ross Prager (@ross_prager) February 7, 2023

Next up in my #FOAMed #FOAMus series on abdominal #POCUS The biliary tract including tips on the common bile duct@WVUEmergencyMed @wvuemeducation @WVUMedicine @WVUMedSchool @WVU_Ultrasound
Check it outhttps://t.co/ujmejRscfN

— Joseph Minardi (@jminardi21) February 7, 2023

Calling all RENAL CLINICIANS who cannulate AVF/AVGs!! We want to know your thoughts about using, or not using, ultrasound (#POCUS) for assessment and/or cannulation. Please complete (and share) our international survey (ethics approved): https://t.co/pBuzyjsvJU pic.twitter.com/Dsu249yUr6

— Monica Schoch (@Monstarr6) February 8, 2023

Gratitude tweet
When I began #POCUS 5y ago, @DRsonosRD was an inspiration. Along the way @ThinkingCC @katiewiskar @nilamjsoni @EchoSoliman @NephroP @ArgaizR have taught me a lot.

Today, I share this #POCUS research with you
Please keep leading!!
https://t.co/wPppzVSb1P

— Jose Atilio Núñez Ramos (@joseatilionr) February 8, 2023

@Yale ft @jaffa_md

Office Hours with… Elias Jaffa

@BioMedCentral

Use of a two-handed model to improve comprehension of ventricular outflow tract anatomy

7 February

@JCM_MDPI

Routine Use of a Pocket-Sized Handheld Echoscopic Device Plus a Biomarker by Emergency Medicine Residents with an Early Screening Algorithm for Suspected Type A Acute Aortic Syndrome

6 February

Sunday evening shift- shoulder reductions are so satisfactory! Did a micro teach+ supervision of a Suprainguinal Fascia Iliac block. Top tips: 1. rest the ulnar border of your probe holding hand on the patient to anchor yourself without effort. https://t.co/PITJwD9nfL

— Chris Yap (@casualtysrus) February 6, 2023

Ultrasound of the Month: Radial Pseudoaneurysm with @kellytillotson2 @martina_diazb @sonostolz #FOAMed #FOAMus https://t.co/WvGMshgEju

— UC EM Residency (@TamingtheSRU) February 6, 2023

@JCM_MDPI @yaletung

Usefulness of Systemic Venous Ultrasound Protocols in the Prognosis of Heart Failure Patients: Results from a Prospective Multicentric Study

@JCM_MDPI

DeepBreastCancerNet: A Novel Deep Learning Model for Breast Cancer Detection Using Ultrasound Images

5 February

@SJTREM

PrehospitaL Ultrasound in Undifferentiated DyspnEa (PreLUDE): a prospective, clinical, observational study

4 February

Experience the benefits of #POCUS guided knee aspiration (& injection) for yourself💉 From reducing risk of complications to improved patient outcomes, #ultrasound guidance is rapidly becoming standard of care.

Learn how here: https://t.co/p8OEbURWrX#MedEd #Radiology #FOAMed pic.twitter.com/bCGMhrGocM

— Jailyn/Ben (@coreultrasound) February 3, 2023

Back in action after a year of R & D and SO excited to highlight our first #POCUS face of 2023! Honored to share thoughts from a PCP hero @mmrhealthcare! https://t.co/HcAWmabQ77

— FacesOfPOCUS (@POCUSfaces) February 3, 2023

🎈our paper on #POCUS in suspected appendicitis made it to editors choice @EmergencyMedBMJ https://t.co/ehnmGxg63D

After 9 rounds of peer review, that is 😂.
Great effort by editors, reviewers and authors alike 🙏. @Sauter_TC @EmergMed4Life pic.twitter.com/Ba3FEbsXwD

— Wolf Hautz (@wolfhautz) February 3, 2023

@WFUMB

Real-Time Automated Segmentation of Median Nerve in Dynamic Ultrasonography Using Deep Learning

@JCM_MDPI

Echocardiographic Parameters to Predict Malignant Events in Arrhythmic Mitral Valve Prolapse Population

@JCM_MDPI

Dependence of Left Ventricular Rotational Mechanics on Left Atrial Volumes in Non-Smoker Healthy Adults: Analysis based on the Three-Dimensional Speckle-Tracking Echocardiographic MAGYAR-Healthy Study

@WINFOCUS

“Sponge pattern” of the spleen: a rarely described high-frequency ultrasound pattern in HIV-positive patients

@PLOSONE

Imaging delays among medical inpatients in Toronto, Ontario: A cohort study

Ultraschall Med

Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound and Strain Elastography for Differentiating Benign and Malignant Parotid Tumors

@accpchest

Critical Care Transesophageal Echocardiography for the Resuscitation of Shock: An Important Diagnostic Skill for the Modern Intensivist

@WestJEM

A Novel Point-of-care Ultrasound Curriculum for Air Critical Care Personnel

JMU

Dynamic air bronchogram ultrasound sign in a noninvasive ventilated patient