It’s October – month of Halloween hocus pocus and Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month. How very apt 🙂

We’re heading into month seven of being shut down, but plans are afoot for a covid-safe and careful reawakening soon. Watching those numbers every morning and the average reduce has become a preoccupation. Here’s hoping Melbourne holds tight and we see this through to a new normal.

In the meantime there is plenty of amazing free ultrasound resources again this week to keep you up to speed. In particular check out the new Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Based, Open Access Text Edited by Michael Schick DO (@UltrasoundStuff) and Rebecca Stein-Wexler MD, with On-line Editor Aida Nasirishargh. An amazing amount of work from an incredible crew.

See you next week

Suean and Mike

P.S. – Last night’s #coachingcorner covered lumps and bumps – was a great discussion – we’ll have it up online soon. All the recordings of the previous sessions are available for you free any time. If you’re looking for free support online join the #coachingcorner  any time – it’s your opportunity to learn with our community of clever live and free every month. Plus – if you have anything you’d like to add to our weekly wrap let us know anytime.

01 October

@IUEM_ultrasound
Sudden onset vision loss. What’s the cause (hint: not the usual US ocular diagnosis)? September Ultrasound Case of the Month.

@SpringerOpen

Diagnostic accuracy of ultrasonography in the assessment of anterior knee pain

 

30 September

@jminardi21

New brief video on scanning and recognizing the major landmarks when doing #POCUS of the superficial chest 

Critical Care @BioMedCentral

Ultrasound-guided peripheral vascular catheterization in pediatric patients: a narrative review

@BMJ_Open

Accuracy of the combined method (auscultation and pH measurement) and ultrasonography for confirmation of gastric tube placement: a study protocol for a prospective study

@BMJ_Open

Intraoperative visualisation and treatment of salivary glands in Sjögren’s syndrome by contrast-enhanced ultrasound sialendoscopy (CEUSS): protocol for a phase I single-centre, single-arm, exploratory study

@srrezaie

REBEL Core Cast 41.0 – Acute Chest Syndrome

29 September

@UltrasoundStuff

Ultrasound in Resource-Limited Settings: A Case Based, Open Access Text
Editors-in-Chief: Michael Schick DO and Rebecca Stein-Wexler MD. On-line Editor Aida Nasirishargh.

Cardiovascular Ultrasound @BioMedCentral

Local myocardial stiffness variations identified by high frame rate shear wave echocardiography

28 September

@PratsEM

The Venous Excess Ultrasound Grading System & Acute Kidney Injury

@coreultrasound

Pts with resp distress can be difficult to dx. #POCUS can be a huge help! One method is using the BLUE protocol. Check out a new 5 Minute Sono tutorial here

@ASE360 CASE

Acute Right Ventricular Dysfunction in a Critically Ill Patient with COVID-19

@ASE360 CASE

Natural History of a Carpentier-Edwards Pericardial Aortic Valve Replaced after 25 Years for Structural Valve Degeneration

@PLOSONE

Diagnostic accuracy of combined thoracic and cardiac sonography for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism: A systematic review and meta-analysis

27 September

@Assoc_Anaes

Conventional landmark palpation vs. preprocedural ultrasound for neuraxial analgesia and anaesthesia in obstetrics – a systematic review and meta‐analysis with trial sequential analyses

26 September

BJA Education @BJAJournals

Essential notes: The use of Lung Ultrasound for COVID-19 in the intensive care unit

25 September

Hepatology @AASLDtweets

Early cholangiocarcinoma detection with magnetic resonance imaging versus ultrasound in primary sclerosing cholangitis

@SpringerOpen

Multimodality imaging features of desmoid tumors: a head-to-toe spectrum

@HepatomaRes

Contrast-enhanced ultrasound of focal liver masses

@COREIMpodcast

Core IM Byte series in collaboration with @nickmmark — #FocusPOCUS

24 September

@UAlberta_Sono

Detecting intra-peritoneal free fluid with ultrasound: A thread.