Zedu Weekly Wrap - 7 July 2023

Hey crew…

as promised the weekly wrap comes to you from a top secret location that is not the Zedu HQ – a small clue: ‘it’s a wee bit cold down here eh?’. Whoever the first person is that can guess the city that this comes from gets a free Zedu t-shirt…

A couple of highlights from the news, views and information of this week:

Michael Prats @PratsEM has launched the latest US GEL PODCAST reviewing the diagnostic accuracy of POCUS in assessing Traumatic Vertebral Artery Injury (3 July)
Courtney Smalley @SmallsSono has a great piece on community emergency physician use of POCUS identifying core uses that have potential implications for training and development (1 July)

And if you haven’t seen the latest embodiment of the Zuckerberg – Musk ego, the Twitter contender Threads has launched. We’re there bringing our daily dose of ultrasound news/views and information too. No hashtags or search fetures (yet) so lacks the network functions of the bird site, but it will be interesting to see how it goes…watch this space.

See you back on home soil next week.

Suean and Mike

P.P.S. 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!

7 – 8 October 2023

7 July

@JCM_MDPI

Ultrasound Evaluation of Tendinopathy in Hemophiliac Patients for the Purpose of Rehabilitation Indications

6 July

@PLOSONE

Diagnostic test accuracy of ultrasound for orbital cellulitis: A systematic review

5 July

Confirming correct interosseus line placement is crucial for managing critically ill patients. Read this new #case to learn how #POCUS can be used to visualize agitated saline in right heart & confirm IO line placement: https://t.co/UA2oGTKgYv #FOAMed #FOAMus #MedEd #MedTwitter pic.twitter.com/j41sprPQ7b

— POCUS Journal (@POCUSJournal) July 4, 2023

@WINFOCUS

Learning curves for point-of-care ultrasound image acquisition for novice learners in a longitudinal curriculum

@CASEfromASE

Cysts Around the Heart: Differential Diagnosis and Multimodality Imaging Strategies for Paracardiac Cysts

@CASEfromASE

Spontaneous Coronary Sinus Thrombosis in a Patient With Pulmonary Embolism and No Prior Cardiac Instrumentation

@CASEfromASE

Visualized Embolization of Inferior Vena Cava Thrombus During the Abdominal Compression Maneuver to Evaluate for a Patent Foramen Ovale

4 July

3 July

Amazing to see how advanced AI has come in echo
•Navigational Guidance uses AI to give live instructions to novices allowing them to scan after a short training program
•Novice images ≠ expert image quality but are👍 for dx@JournalASEcho @ASE360
link https://t.co/tOD6WDdHAW pic.twitter.com/gGjNjeDu81

— Lucy (@LucySafi) July 3, 2023

US GEL PODCAST #147!

Traumatic Vertebral Artery Injury – with #POCUS?!#USGEL #trauma #FOAMed https://t.co/ZPYrpmxina pic.twitter.com/B4ukLxMLE8

— Michael I. Prats (@PratsEM) July 3, 2023

Journal of Intensive Care @EMSurgeryBMC

Correlation between tissue Doppler-derived left ventricular systolic velocity (S’) and left ventricle ejection fraction in sepsis and septic shock: a retrospective cohort study

Insights into Imaging

Enhancing diagnosis and treatment of superior cluneal nerve entrapment: cadaveric, clinical, and ultrasonographic insights

2 July

@WFUMB

Investigation of the Impact of Defective Ultrasound Transducers on Clinical Image Quality in Grayscale 2-D Still Images

1 July

Very proud of this manuscript and hope the #POCUS community will read it! https://t.co/N5jYQRSEWX The goal was to examine community ED physicians utilization and quality with #POCUS. >5000 scans! Hope it helps support community US programs! @drerinsimon @BaruchEM pic.twitter.com/RHf13QSZJf

— Courtney Smalley (@SmallsSono) June 30, 2023

@Crit_Care

Clinical benefit of AI-assisted lung ultrasound in a resource-limited intensive care unit