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Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2018 10:2
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Early abnormal transient hyperemic response test can predict delayed ischemic neurologic deficit in subarachnoid hemorrhage
Early detection of vasospasm is crucial to prevent significant delayed ischemic neurological deficit post subarachnoid hemorrhage. The standard methods of detection, including cerebral angiogram and computed t...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2018 10:1 -
Abstracts from the 13th WINFOCUS World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency & Critical Care
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9(Suppl 1):26 -
The Assessment of Competency in Thoracic Sonography (ACTS) scale: validation of a tool for point-of-care ultrasound
The rapid adoption of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has created a need to develop assessment tools to ensure that learners can competently use these technologies. In this study, the authors developed and te...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:25 -
Management of cardiopulmonary assist devices in critically ill patients using point-of-care transthoracic echocardiography: a case series
Point-of-care transthoracic echocardiography is increasingly being utilized by the intensive care physicians in the management of hemodynamically unstable patients. However, its use in the management of critic...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:24 -
Evaluation of a short formation on the performance of point-of-care renal ultrasound performed by physicians without previous ultrasound skills: prospective observational study
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (PoCUS) is recommended by emergency medicine societies for the detection of hydronephrosis. Training of certified Emergency Physicians (EP) without prior ultrasound experience remains ...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:23 -
Postural lung recruitment assessed by lung ultrasound in mechanically ventilated children
Atelectasis is a common finding in mechanically ventilated children with healthy lungs. This lung collapse cannot be overcome using standard levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and thus for only ...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:22 -
Point-of-care transcranial Doppler by intensivists
In the unconscious patient, there is a diagnostic void between the neurologic physical exam, and more invasive, costly and potentially harmful investigations. Transcranial color-coded sonography and two-dimens...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:21 -
The relationship between single and two-dimensional indices of left ventricular size using hemodynamic transesophageal echocardiography in trauma and burn patients
Conventional echocardiographic technique for assessment of volume status and cardiac contractility utilizes left ventricular end-diastolic area (LVEDA) and fractional area of change (FAC), respectively. Our go...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:20 -
POCUS in perioperative medicine: a North American perspective
Ultrasound (US) performed at the point of care has found fertile ground in perioperative medicine. In the hands of anesthesiologists, transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) has become established as a powerful...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:19 -
Time to correct the flow of corrected flow time
Recently published study of Ma et al. evaluates two relatively novel measures of fluid responsiveness, carotid blood flow and corrected carotid flow time (ccFT). Both measures have been recently quoted as poss...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:18 -
Bedside transcranial sonography monitoring in a patient with hydrocephalus post subarachnoid hemorrhage
Development of hydrocephalus can occur after subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). Typically, it is diagnosed with computed tomography, CT, scan. However, transcranial sonography (TCS) can be used particularly in pat...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:17 -
Ultrasonography in trauma: a nation-wide cross-sectional investigation
The Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (FAST) protocol is considered beneficial in emergent evaluation of trauma patients with blunt or penetrating injury and has become integrated into the Advanced ...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:16 -
Transesophageal echocardiography in orthotopic liver transplantation: a comprehensive intraoperative monitoring tool
Intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography is a minimally invasive monitoring tool that can provide real-time visual information on ventricular function and hemodynamic volume status in patients undergoin...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:15 -
Right heart thrombus in transit: a series of two cases
Right heart thrombus in transit is an increasingly recognized medical emergency with very high mortality rate. Echocardiography helps to establish the diagnosis and can differentiate between right heart thromb...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:14 -
A simplified lung ultrasound approach to detect increased extravascular lung water in critically ill patients
The quantification of B-lines at lung ultrasonography is a valid tool to estimate the extravascular lung water (EVLW) in patients after major cardiac surgery. However, there is still uncertainty about the corr...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:13 -
Applicability of a modified EFAST protocol (r-EFAST) to evaluate hemodynamically unstable patients after percutaneous cardiac intervention
Percutaneous cardiac intervention is an invasive diagnostic and therapeutic technique which carries a significant complication rate. Although the usefulness of EFAST protocol is widely recognised, this paper w...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:12 -
Minimal training sufficient to diagnose pediatric wrist fractures with ultrasound
In children, non-fractured wrists generally need no treatment and those that are fractured may only require a 3-week cast without any clinical follow-up. The ability to perform a point-of-care triage decision ...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:11 -
Correlation of carotid blood flow and corrected carotid flow time with invasive cardiac output measurements
Non-invasive measures that can accurately estimate cardiac output may help identify volume-responsive patients. This study seeks to compare two non-invasive measures (corrected carotid flow time and carotid bl...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:10 -
A randomised crossover study to compare the cross-sectional and longitudinal approaches to ultrasound-guided peripheral venepuncture in a model
Ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous access may present an alternative to central or intraosseous access in patients with difficult peripheral veins. Using venepuncture of a phantom model as a proxy, we in...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:9 -
The FAST D protocol: a simple method to rule out traumatic vascular injuries of the lower extremities
The aim of this study is to assess the accuracy of a Fast Doppler protocol for the examination of an injured lower limb, namely 2-Point Fast Doppler (2PFD), in order to rapidly triage arterial lesions after pe...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:8 -
Serial lung and IVC ultrasound in the assessment of congestive heart failure
Management of congestive heart failure (CHF) is dependent on clinical assessments of volume status, which are subjective and imprecise. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is useful in the diagnosis of CHF, but h...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:7 -
Systematic review and meta-analysis for the use of ultrasound versus radiology in diagnosing of pneumonia
Physicians are increasingly using point of care lung ultrasound (LUS) for diagnosing pneumonia, especially in critical situations as it represents relatively easy and immediately available tool. They also used...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:6 -
Point-of-care ultrasound and Doppler ultrasound evaluation of vascular injuries in penetrating and blunt trauma
The aim of this study is to describe point-of-care ultrasound and Color flow Duplex Doppler characteristics of penetrating and blunt trauma-related vascular injuries of the limbs and neck.
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:5 -
An easy-to-build, low-budget point-of-care ultrasound simulator: from Linux to a web-based solution
Hands-on training in point-of-care ultrasound (POC-US) should ideally comprise bedside teaching, as well as simulated clinical scenarios. High-fidelity phantoms and portable ultrasound simulation systems are c...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:4 -
Erratum to: Pediatric emergency medicine point-of-care ultrasound: summary of the evidence
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:3 -
Point-of-care ultrasound identification of pneumatosis intestinalis in pediatric abdominal pain: a case report
We describe a case report of an infant with intussusception who presented to a pediatric emergency department with diarrhea and increased irritability. Pneumatosis intestinalis (intra-mural air) detected on po...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:2 -
Eliciting renal tenderness by sonopalpation in diagnosing acute pyelonephritis
Diagnosing acute pyelonephritis relies on the combination of historical, physical, and laboratory findings. Costovertebral angle tenderness is important, although its accuracy is unknown. Point-of-care ultraso...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2017 9:1 -
Doppler images of intra-pulmonary shunt within atelectasis in anesthetized children
Doppler images of pulmonary vessels in pulmonary diseases associated with subpleural consolidations have been described. Color Doppler easily identifies such vessels within consolidations while spectral Dopple...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:19 -
Estimating the accuracy of optic nerve sheath diameter measurement using a pocket-sized, handheld ultrasound on a simulation model
Ultrasound measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) appears to be a promising, rapid, non-invasive bedside tool for identification of elevated intra-cranial pressure. With improvements in ultrasound t...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:18 -
Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasonography combined with procalcitonin for the diagnosis of pneumonia: a pilot study
The diagnostic value of lung ultrasonography (LUS) and procalcitonin (PCT) in the diagnosis of lung infections is known. No studies evaluated the combination of LUS and PCT for the diagnosis of pneumonia in th...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:17 -
Pediatric emergency medicine point-of-care ultrasound: summary of the evidence
The utility of point-of-care ultrasound is well supported by the medical literature. Consequently, pediatric emergency medicine providers have embraced this technology in everyday practice. Recently, the Ameri...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:16 -
Common pitfalls in point-of-care ultrasound: a practical guide for emergency and critical care physicians
Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is a widely used tool in emergency and critical care settings, useful in the decision-making process as well as in interventional guidance. While having an impressive diag...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:15 -
The Sierra Leone Ultrasound Rainbow4Africa Project (SLURP): an observational study of ultrasound effectiveness in developing countries
Diagnostic tools available in low-income countries are often really basic even if patients can be as sick as those of the richer countries. Point-of-care ultrasound could be a solution for this problem. We stu...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:14 -
Erratum to: 12th WINFOCUS world congress on ultrasound in emergency and critical care
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:13 -
12th WINFOCUS world congress on ultrasound in emergency and critical care
A1 Point-of-care ultrasound examination of cervical spine in emergency department
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8(Suppl 1):12 -
Teaching the internist to see: effectiveness of a 1-day workshop in bedside ultrasound for internal medicine residents
A growing body of evidence supports the use of bedside ultrasound for core Internal Medicine procedures and increasingly as augmentation of the physical exam. The literature also supports that trainees, both m...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:11 -
Lung ultrasound in internal medicine: training and clinical practice
Lung ultrasound (LUS) represents an emerging technique for bedside chest imaging in different clinical settings. A standardized approach allows the diagnosis, the quantification, and the follow-up of different...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:10 -
A unique method for estimating the reliability learning curve of optic nerve sheath diameter ultrasound measurement
Optic nerve sheath diameter (ONSD) measurement using ultrasound has been proposed as a rapid, non-invasive, point of care technique to estimate intra-cranial pressure (ICP). Ultrasonic measurement of the optic...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:9 -
Ultrasonography for the assessment of lung recruitment maneuvers
Lung collapse is a known complication that affects most of the patients undergoing positive pressure mechanical ventilation. Such atelectasis and airways closure lead to gas exchange and lung mechanics impairm...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:8 -
Focused cardiopulmonary ultrasound for assessment of dyspnea in a resource-limited setting
The diagnosis and management of acutely dyspneic patients in resource-limited developing world settings poses a particular challenge. Focused cardiopulmonary ultrasound (CPUS) may assist in the emergency diagn...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:7 -
Current status of emergency department attending physician ultrasound credentialing and quality assurance in the United States
The use of emergency ultrasonography (EUS) has gained much popularity in the past few decades, and is now a mainstay of diagnostic decision-making. This expanded use is now highlighting the substantial issue o...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:6 -
A workflow task force affects emergency physician compliance for point-of-care ultrasound documentation and billing
Emergency point-of-care ultrasound (POC u/s) is an example of a health information technology that improves patient care and time to correct diagnosis. POC u/s examinations should be documented, as they compri...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:5 -
Learning process and improvement of point-of-care ultrasound technique for subxiphoid visualization of the inferior vena cava
Medical residents' training in ultrasonography usually follows the recommendations of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP), even though these do not provide specific technical guidelines. Adequa...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:4 -
Social media to supplement point-of-care ultrasound courses: the “sandwich e-learning” approach. A randomized trial
Point-of-care ultrasound (POC-US) is gaining importance in almost all specialties. E-learning has been used to teach theoretical knowledge and pattern recognition. As social media are universally available, th...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:3 -
Ultrasound findings in critical care patients: the “liver sign” and other abnormal abdominal air patterns
In critical care patients, point of care abdominal ultrasound examination, although it has been practiced for over 30 years, is not as widespread as its cardiac or pulmonary counterparts. We report two cases i...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:2 -
Phantom model and scoring system to assess ability in ultrasound-guided chest drain positioning
Chest tube positioning is an invasive procedure associated with potentially serious injuries. In the last few years, we have been running a project directed at developing a practical simulator of a surgical pr...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2016 8:1 -
Real-time images of tidal recruitment using lung ultrasound
Ventilator-induced lung injury is a form of mechanical damage leading to a pulmonary inflammatory response related to the use of mechanical ventilation enhanced by the presence of atelectasis. One proposed mec...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2015 7:19 -
The evolution of an integrated ultrasound curriculum (iUSC) for medical students: 9-year experience
Interest in ultrasound education in medical schools has increased dramatically in recent years as reflected in a marked increase in publications on the topic and growing attendance at international meetings on...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2015 7:18 -
Inferior vena cava diameters and collapsibility index reveal early volume depletion in a blood donor model
Changes of volume status can be readily inferred from variations in diameter of the inferior vena cava (IVC) measured by ultrasound. However the effect of IVC changes following acute blood loss are not fully e...
Citation: Critical Ultrasound Journal 2015 7:17
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