Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) integrates imaging into the physical examination at the bedside. This offers the advantage of instant clinical information and has shown to speed up the diagnostic process, and to improve diagnostic accuracy and correct treatment.
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Transl Vis Sci Technol
January 2025
Jacobs Retina Center, Shiley Eye Institute, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA.
Purpose: To compare the assessment of clinically relevant retinal and choroidal lesions as well as optic nerve pathologies using a novel three-wavelength ultra-widefield (UWF) scanning laser ophthalmoscope with established retinal imaging techniques for ophthalmoscopic imaging.
Methods: Eighty eyes with a variety of retinal and choroidal lesions were assessed on the same time point using Topcon color fundus photography (CFP) montage, Optos red/green (RG), Heidelberg SPECTRALIS MultiColor 55-color montage (MCI), and novel Optos red/green/blue (RGB). Paired images of the optic nerve, retinal, or choroidal lesions were initially diagnosed based on CFP imaging.
Cureus
December 2024
Emergency Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, USA.
Access to diagnostic imaging is significantly limited in much of the world, and sub-Saharan Africa is no exception. Clinician-performed point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) may provide increased access to diagnostic imaging for many patients in low-resource settings, but training in this modality is limited. We describe the development and implementation of a context-specific, multi-modal pilot POCUS curriculum involving hands-on instruction, in-person and online didactics, asynchronous online image review, and quantitative evaluation.
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January 2025
Senior Lecturer, Pharmacy Education, University of Sydney School of Pharmacy.
Introduction: In this report, we present a cardiac ultrasound training module for medical student learners. The module assists medical students in developing foundational skills in image acquisition, identification of normal cardiac ultrasound anatomy, and demonstration of professionalism when performing the associated OSCE exam.
Methods: We delivered the module across a 2-week cardiology rotation.
Indian J Crit Care Med
January 2025
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Padyana M, Karanth S. Difficult Airway: Is this the Time to Focus on Point-of-care Ultrasonography? Indian J Crit Care Med 2025;29(1):1-2.
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January 2025
Department of Anaesthesiology, Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
Background: To evaluate the role of ultrasound (US) in the assessment of the airway and to determine whether US has the potential to serve as effective, noninvasive and less time-consuming method for the diagnosis of difficult intubation in ICU patients.
Patients And Methods: This cross-sectional study was carried in 152 critically ill patients who underwent intubation in the ICU from December 2022 to April 2024. Prior to intubation thyromental height (TMH) and hyomental distance ratio (HMD-R) was measured using a scale and distance from skin to hyoid bone (SHB) and distance from skin to thyrohyoid membrane (STM) was measured using a US.
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