Hi team…

we’ve spent the last week making final preparations for the upcoming Annual International Conference of the Australasian Sonographers Association, running on the Gold Coast May 29 – 31.

It’s always a big weekend – catching up with old friends, seeing the latest in technology and making sure we’re across the latest in techniques and applications. We’ll be at booth number 21 – centrally located and close to the coffee!! Be sure to catch up with us there – we’d love to chat all things ultrasound training.

Global news worth checking out in this week’s feed:

• CHEST

  Giovanni Volpicelli has a piece in CHEST on “Lung Ultrasound: Preserving Simplicity in the Age of Complexity” (10 May)

• A piece in Sonography “Pre-Scan Informedness and Anxiety During the 20-Week Morphology Ultrasound: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study” (8 May)

Off to make the most of the warm weather for the weekend now!

Keep your probes clean and the gel warm.

Mike and Suean

P.S. If you have students or trainees who are struggling to grasp physics ore concepts – or who just can’t see how the math applies to the probe in their hand – be sure to get them to check out our brand-new Ultrasound Physics Simplified Online Module 🚀- the perfect gift that will keep on giving.

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15 May

Radiology Case Reports

Preoperative ultrasound diagnosis of appendiceal diverticulitis in a CT limited setting: A case report

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Make 2026 your year of ultrasound and check out our range of
scheduled and one-on-one options that will get you scanning like a pro.
If you know the value of protected learning time, secure your place early.

P.S. – don’t forget – if something doesn’t quite fit your learning objectives or availability we can design and deliver a program that meets your needs. Don’t tell everyone though – availability is limited.

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14 May

Ditch the lectures?🩺
Recent data shows e-prep boosts hands-on time & skills for novices & pros🚀
Aussie educators: do you use blended learning?
What’s stopping you? 🇦🇺💬

👇Join the conversation👇https://t.co/rYVyaI7zS5 #POCUS #MedEd #ultrasoundtraining pic.twitter.com/IXUD2j0Loc

— Zedu Ultrasound Training (@zedunow) May 14, 2026

#StanDOM‘s Andre Kumar (pictured), Pawan Nandakishore, Evan Baum, John Kugler & colleagues have released one of the largest open-source lung #POCUS datasets to date to accelerate AI-driven applications in lung ultrasound. https://t.co/ePSI1TApi1 pic.twitter.com/JsJuJxJIYd

— Stanford Department of Medicine (@StanfordDeptMed) May 13, 2026

Journal of Clinical Medicine

A Narrative Review of Syncope Decision Rules: A Case for Point-of-Care Cardiac Ultrasound for Cardiac Syncope

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Embolic Burden and Echocardiographic Predictors in a Real-World Cohort of Infective Endocarditis: A 15-Year Single-Center Retrospective Study

Insights into Imaging

How should we interpret excessive left ventricular trabeculation? Update on controversies from the cardiac imaging perspective

13 May

AIUM The Scan

Seeing the Unseen: What Early-Career Ultrasound Users Should Know in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Journal of Clinical Medicine

From Invisible to Visible: Cutting-Edge Ultrasound Insights into Entheses of the Distal Extremities in Rheumatology

PLOSOne

GBCapsNet: A calibrated capsule network for automated gallbladder disease diagnosis via ultrasound imaging

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12 May

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Diagnostic Utility of Upper Airway Ultrasonography in Adults with Suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea: A Systematic Review

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Mapping Echocardiographic Practice in Emilia-Romagna: A Regional Healthcare Census

JASE

Discordant Severity Grading in Right Ventricular Dysfunction: Prognostic Implications of Conventional Parameters versus 3D Echocardiography-Derived Ejection Fraction

Pediatric Radiology

Considerations for imaging of children pre-operatively- and in the early post-operative period of renal transplantation

WFUMB

Analysis of B-Scan Ultrasonography Using Neural Networks to Predict Risk of Fibrosis in Patients With Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD)

Echocardiography

Utility of Three-Dimensional Echocardiography for Ventricular Assessment in Congenital Heart Disease: A Comparative Retrospective Study

11 May

WFUMB

Automated O-RADS Risk Stratification Using a Large Language Model Analysis of Narrative Ultrasound Reports

Echocardiography

Monitoring of Treatment Response in Light-chain Cardiac Amyloidosis–Does Echocardiography Have a Role?

ISUOG

Left and right myocardial performance indices in growth-restricted fetuses: systematic review and meta-analysis

10 May

US GEL PODCAST #181!

Physician Assistant POCUS – with special guests Breunig, Bafuma & Bludorn #POCUS #FOAMed #USGELhttps://t.co/LVA1DUo3sX pic.twitter.com/7ievf5lXGd

— Michael I. Prats (@PratsEM) May 8, 2026

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Long-Term Outcomes of Endoscopic Ultrasound-Guided Gallbladder Drainage for Acute Cholecystitis in Non-Surgical Candidates: A Multicenter Retrospective Study

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Ultrasonographic Evaluation of Asymptomatic Shoulder Involvement in Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Prospective Case–Control Study

Journal of Clinical Medicine

Role of Ultrasound and Fetal MRI in the Prenatal Assessment of Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: A Systematic Review

WFUMB

Sonazoid Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Hypoenhancement Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Hepatic Hemangiomas: A Multicenter Study

WFUMB

Ultrasound-based Assessment of Jugular Vein Alterations in Response to Simulated Microgravity and Countermeasures: A Systematic Review

Sonography Journal

Pre-Scan Informedness and Anxiety During the 20-Week Morphology Ultrasound: A Prospective Cross-Sectional Study

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

Asymptomatic Giant Right Ventricular Myxoma in an Adolescent: A Rare Case Report With Favorable Surgical Outcome

CHEST

Giovanni Volpicelli – Lung Ultrasound: Preserving Simplicity in the Age of Complexity

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