Critical Care Ultrasound (CCUS) information and resources
Beside scanning schedule
Every other Monday at 3pm
8th floor medical ICU workroom
Sending studies to Qpath from the SonoSite Xporte CLICK HERE
CCUS Curriculum documents
CCUS 1 Ultrasound Basics and Qpath Intro
CCUS 2 Basic Critical Care Echo
CCUS 3 LVEF Estimation
CCUS 4 Lung Ultrasound
CCUS 5 Pleural Ultrasound
CCUS 6 Abdomen & Paracentesis
CCUS 7 IVC & Fluid Responsiveness
CCUS 8 DVT Ultrasound
CCUS 9 Ultrasound-Guided Subclavian Central Venous Cannulation
CCUS 10 Ultrasound-Guided Peripheral IV Insertion
CCUS Articles CLICK HERE
Intro
Q-Path (4 videos, 20 min)
Ultrasound physics/knobology (3 videos, 32 min)
Basic Cardiac
LVEF (15 min)
Caveats to above (2 videos, 21 min):
EPSS (16 min)
Pericardial Effusion & tamponade (2 videos, 40 min)
Lung/Pleura
B-lines (15 min)
Comprehensive lung scanning (2 videos, 76 min)
Philips' "Point-of-care lung ultrasound" eBook (comprehensive but short)
Thoracentesis (3 min)
Abdomen & Paracentes
FAST (14 min)
Hydronephrosis (14 min)
AAA (32 Min)
Small bowel obstruction (13 min):
Paracentesis (10 min):
IVS & Fluid Responsiveness
IVC controversy FOR (4 min)
IVC controversy against (23 min)
Cardiac output (5 min)
IVC, fluid responsiveness, cardiac output – putting it all together (2 videos, 48 min)
DVT
Lower extremity DVT evaluation (25 min)
Ultrasound guided IV access
Central venous catheter placement (20 min)
Peripheral IV placement (20 min)
Advanced cardiac
RV function (2 videos, 30 min)
Diastology (2 videos, 58 min)
Diastology summary/how to (4 min)
Doppler physics (2 videos, 31 min)
Advanced lung
ARDS, recruitment/PEEP, ventilator weaning
**TBD**
Recommended apps/iBooks
Introduction to Bedside Ultrasound: Volume 1 (IOS only)
Introduction to Bedside Ultrasound: Volume 2 (IOS only)
Additional resources
Vanderbilt EM Ultrasound videos
Stanford Critical Care POCUS (highly recommended, requires creation of free account)
Sinai EM Ultrasound tutorial
Core Ultrasound
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