Ultrasound Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

Last week I shared with you a conversation I had with Dr. Resa Lewiss on the importance of mentoring. (In case you missed it, Dr. Lewiss is an amazing individual! She is a practicing emergency physician/Professor of Emergency Medicine who works in Philadelphia, is the creator of The Visible Voices podcast and is one of the founding members of TIME’s UP healthcare, a non-profit initiative that advocates for safety and equity in healthcare.This week, I get the pleasure of sharing with you our conversation on how COVID has affected how we teach bedside ultrasound. Check it out!

If you'd like to learn from us, check out courses.coreultrasound.com and if you're interested in an online ultrasound fellowship, check out ultrasoundleadershipacademy.com

Patients with acute pain can be challenging to manage in the ED. This week, I speak with two pain control experts: Dr. Alexis LaPietra and Dr. Katherine Vlasica. They both completed a pain management fellowship at St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in New Jersey. Dr. LaPietra is the founder and creator of the Alternatives to Opiates (ALTO) program and the newly formed Pain Management Section of ACEP. Both are actively involved in a multi-modal approach to pain control in the ED, often including ultrasound-guided nerve blocks. This podcast is the audio version of the interview.  If you'd like to see the video of the interview, check out www.coreultrasound.com!

If you’re interested in some great online ultrasound education, check out Core Ultrasound Courses. If you’d also like to complete an online ultrasound fellowship, check out the Ultrasound Leadership Academy!

This week, Drs. Lindsay Reardon and Peter Weimersheimer talk to us about a case of shortness of breath they had in their community shop that ended up being a life-threatening pathology that was caught early enough to avoid the patient decompensating. Next week, we're publish part 2 of the podcast where we speak with the cardiologist on the case. 

Interested in an online ultrasound fellowship?  Check out www.ultrasoundleadshipacademy.com!

Pediatric patients with suspicion of congenital heart abnormalities can be very intimidating! In this week's podcast Jacob speaks with one of our pediatric POCUS experts regarding congenital heart abnormalities and how the average provider might be able to evaluate them.  Your point-of-care exam should never replace a cardiology-performed echo, but your exam can definitely help you in your work-up.  Here are Russ's tips:

1. Hypoplastic left heart - Look for a small left ventricle
2. Coarctation of the aorta - Look at the pulsed-wave Doppler waveform of the abdominal aorta
3. Heart failure - Look at the lungs

It appears that there is a higher incidence of thrombotic events in COVID-19 patients, including upper and lower extremity DVT, MI, CVA and heart attacks.  While there are many ways to diagnose thrombotic disease, point of care ultrasound is definitely an option.  

For a summary of the available literature on COVID-associated thrombosis, check out www.coreultrasound.com/COVID_thrombosis

Listen to the podcast and let us know what you think.  

Back in January 2020, I was in Vermont with Russ Horowitz. We had both been lecturing at Stowe EM and we got to talking about pediatric pneumonia. Russ told me about a case of a patient who was sent to his hospital with a radiographic diagnosis of pneumonia. Turns out the patient didn't have pneumonia, but had a thymus (which is a normal finding in neonates). Check out the podcast for more details!

If you want to see a tutorial on how to evaluate a patient for pneumonia,  check out https://www.coreultrasound.com/pneumonia/

Interested in an online ultrasound fellowship?  Check out http://www.ultrasoundleadershipacademy.com/

Let's be honest: Musculoskeletal ultrasound is unlikely to save a patient's life.  However, it can dramatically change your patients disposition and may help diagnose your patients with abnormalities much faster than without POCUS.  This week, Jacob talks with Zachary Risler (@zrisler) about his thoughts on the sonographic evaluation of hip effusions.

If you want to see a tutorial on how to perform the exam and exactly what to look for, check out https://www.coreultrasound.com/hip-effusion/

Interested in an online ultrasound fellowship?  Check out http://www.ultrasoundleadershipacademy.com/

In this video, Michael Prats, MD (guest host!) and Jacob Avila sit down with Yale Tung Chen and speak with him regarding his article, Results of a Prospective Study to Evaluate the Impact of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in the Enhancement of Gastrointestinal Bleeding Risk Scores. In this study, Dr. Chen showed that ultrasound was able to prognosticate hemodynamically stable patients for bad outcomes down the road.  Here's the link to the study.

Interested in an online ultrasound fellowship? Check out www.ultrasoundleadershipacademy.com

This week, we talk with Dr Peter Weimersheimer and Dr. Lindsay Reardon regarding their experience using ultrasound in the era of COVID.  Listen to the podcast to hear their thoughts on machine protection and decontamination, using portable devices and how to teach ultrasound.

Interested in an online ultrasound fellowship?  Check out www.ultrasoundleadershipacademy.com