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Emergency Physician. #POCUS Fellowship Director, @UBC. Chair, @CAEP_EUC. Coffee and Craft Beer Enthusiast.
May 7, 2022 11 tweets 16 min read
Top 10 #POCUS Papers of 2021
These aren't necessarily the best papers from last year, but they were papers that caught our interest
#VanPOCUS22 @VancouverPOCUS 1. Point-of-Care Ultrasonography #POCUS @NEJM @Jose_Diaz_Gomez
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#VanPOCUS22 @VancouverPOCUS
May 8, 2021 11 tweets 5 min read
May 8, 2021 4 tweets 3 min read
Congratulations to @fraserkegel @teres_sono @MattDouglasVail for winning the #VanPOCUS resident challenge! The three of them get FREE registration to today's Vancouver POCUS21 Symposium. @fraserkegel had a case of a ruptured mycotic abdominal aortic aneurysm
#VanPOCUS
Apr 18, 2020 10 tweets 3 min read
The largest study of ultrasound for #COVID19 to date (that I'm aware of) - retrospective, 30 pts with COVID confirmed via PCR, who underwent both lung US and CT

Lung US was compared to CT which was used as the reference standard

#POCUSforCOVID

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1/ All US scans were performed at the bedside by a single physician
-6 region scan per hemithorax (anterior, lateral, posterior divided into upper and lower regions)
-scanning in BOTH longitudinal and transverse
-used BOTH convex and linear probes
-5-8 min per scan

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