Ultrasound-guided procedures in medical education: a fresh look at cadavers.

Demand for bedside ultrasound in medicine has created a need for earlier exposure to ultrasound education during the clinical years of undergraduate medical education. Although bedside ultrasound is often used for invasive medical procedures, there is no standardized educational model for procedural skills that can provide the learner a real-life simulated experience. The objective of our study was to describe a unique fresh cadaver preparation model, and to determine the impact of a procedure-focused ultrasound training session.

Focused simulation training: emergency department nurses' confidence and comfort level in performing ultrasound-guided vascular access.

Study Objectives: The objective of this study is to assess Emergency Department (ED) nurses' confidence, comfort level, and competency in performing ultrasound-guided vascular access after a focused ultrasound simulation training session.

Methods: A cross-sectional study at an academic medical center. A simulation-based ultrasound training module was used to train ED nurses in ultrasound-guided intravenous (IV) access.

Pilot study to determine the utility of point-of-care ultrasound in the assessment of difficult laryngoscopy.

Objectives: Prediction of difficult laryngoscopy in emergency care settings is challenging. The preintubation clinical screening tests may not be applied in a large number of emergency intubations due to the patient's clinical condition. The objectives of this study were 1) to determine the utility of sonographic measurements of thickness of the tongue, anterior neck soft tissue at the level of the hyoid bone, and thyrohyoid membrane in distinguishing difficult and easy laryngoscopies and 2) to examine the association between sonographic measurements (thickness of tongue and anterior neck soft tissue) and difficult airway clinical screening tests (modified Mallampati score, thyromental distance, and interincisor gap).