School holidays are here…

which means a couple of weeks of negotiating fun with children and fun with ultrasound. A great combination 🙂

Plenty of new ultrasound stuff out this week – including the recording of this month’s Coaching Corner discussing early pregnancy loss – you can check it out here.

Other things that sparked our interest this week include:

• a 4 step method for MAPSE estimation by 3D TEE (or TOE depending on your preference) from Anders Austlid Tasken @AndersTasken and team (13 September)
• The latest from MetroHealth Emergency Ultrasound (@MH_EMultrasound) talking with Dr. Rachel Liu, MD (@RubbleEM) from Yale University talks the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in the field of bedside ultrasound  (9 September).

And don’t forget – if you have any news or ultrasound related research you’d like to highlight get in touch we’d love to hear from you.

Until this time next week…

Suean and Mike

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14 September

BMC Cardiovascular Disorders

Predictive value of intravascular ultrasound for the function of intermediate coronary lesions

BMC Medical Education

The efficacy of an anatomy and ultrasonography workshop on improving residents’ confidence and knowledge in regional anesthesia

13 September

#Ultrasound of the IVC for fluid responsiveness – in this piece Scott Millington highlights that it’s not useful and should be abandoned in most situations.

What do you think?

Join the conversationhttps://t.co/0Vcx4BimkR#POCUS #ultrasoundtraining #foamed pic.twitter.com/8vDoKjSMeO

— Zedu Ultrasound Training @zedunow@med-mastodon.com (@zedunow) September 14, 2023

Our 4 step method for MAPSE estimation by 3D #TEE! A fully automated pipeline for future monitoring of LV function in the #ICU

📜Paper: https://t.co/5LjPxfJZiM#autoMAPSE #echofirst #POCUS #MedTwitter #CardioTwitter pic.twitter.com/dNiC4y8zuw

— Anders Austlid Tasken (@AndersTasken) September 14, 2023

 

@PLOSOne

B-mode ultrasound characteristics of carotid plaques in symptomatic and asymptomatic patients with low-grade stenosis

@WINFOCUS

Echocardiographic parameters in COVID-19 patients and their association with ICU mortality: a prospective multicenter observational study

12 September

@PedRadJournal

Quantitative ultrasound fatty liver evaluation in a pediatric population: comparison with magnetic resonance imaging of liver proton density fat fraction

@WINFOCUS

The correlation between epicardial fat thickness and longitudinal left atrial reservoir strain in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and controls

@HSR_journal

A clinician’s guide to gallstones and common bile duct (CBD): A study protocol for a systematic review and evidence-based recommendations

@TheSGEM
SGEM#415: BUCKLE DOWN FOR SOME ULTRASOUND TO DIAGNOSIS DISTAL FOREARM FRACTURES

11 September

@srrezaie

POCUS in the ED: Is Confirmatory RUQ US Still Necessary?

@WFUMB

Benefit of Using Both Ultrasound Imaging and Clinical Information for Predicting Malignant Soft Tissue Tumors

@BMC_series

Evaluation of left ventricular dysfunction by three-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography and bioinformatics analysis of circulating exosomal miRNA in obese patients

@WINFOCUS

The association of attentional foci and image interpretation accuracy in novices interpreting lung ultrasound images: an eye-tracking study

 

Pericardial mesothelioma presenting as constrictive pericarditis

10 September

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Lung ultrasound and mediastinal retraction in children

9 September

Check out the latest video from our Ultrasound Grand Rounds about Ultrasound and AI with @RubbleEM from @Yale_EUS https://t.co/8vrDbpe4wj#MetroEUS #Ultrasound #POCUS #ArtificialIntelligence pic.twitter.com/MougJWxMg1

— MetroHealth Emergency Ultrasound (@MH_EMultrasound) September 7, 2023

@escardio

An apple in the heart: a rare case of cardiac hyper-immunoglobulin E syndrome