Tag: Training

The Elephant in the Room of #POCUS-guided (and other) Procedures

Steve Socransky • January 27, 2017 • 0 Comments

Can I tell you a secret? I did 5 years of residency, 2 years of family medicine in Canada (Quebec City) and 3 years of EM in the United States (Milwaukee). Both programs were really good and I got to do a variety of procedures and many of them. But even with all that training, […]

Ultrasound horror stories

Greg Hall • February 12, 2016 • 1 Comment

I am looking for tales of patient care gone wrong with POCUS. Please send me your cases, (or cases you “heard happened to someone else”) where the use of ultrasound at the bedside led to less than ideal outcomes. POCUS is just like any other tool in medicine: it has its limitations, it can generate […]

#POCUS for DVT in the ICU: Can it be Done?

Steve Socransky • July 6, 2014 • 1 Comment

Anton Helman (@EMCases) from EM Cases brought up a recent article on Twitter regarding DVT POCUS performed by internal medicine residents in the ICU. The results were…disappointing… But does this spell the end for DVT EDE? Let’s peel back the layers of the onion & see. If you would like to read the article yourself, […]