Ultrasound Podcast

You know we haven’t had an MSK episode in a while, which is a shame really.  MSK ultrasound is really cool and we think grossly underutilized.  And of course when we talk about bone ultrasound we go straight to The Bone Boss, himself, Mark Goodman MD.  Mark is fellowship trained in both sports medicine and ultrasound……and super good looking (think ...

Yeah, we know, you can do a paracentesis. We’re not talking about a pericardiocentesis here.  The belly’s big, you’re not scared, so why not just do it?  Well, it turns out that your patients have less complications when you go ahead and take a look.  So don’t be “that guy” or “that girl”.  Don’t take a chance when it’s your ...

OK, no funny, no cuteness, nothing.  Just straight echo guided procedural education.  We like to have fun and keep it light because we think that enhances your education and keeps you interested.  However, we’re talking about pericardiocentesis here.  Is there any procedure more “puckering” than sticking a needle in the pericardium of a crashing patient.  So just imagine yourself in ...

Wait!  Before you download this you should understand a few things. 1.  I hope you’re all enjoying SMACC! 2.  This is audio only.  There is no video in this one because it’s purely an interview. 3.  This is straight from Bob Stuntz from The EM Res Podcast, so it’s really not ours.  This is Bob interviewing us about ultrasound fellowships and ...

Making Horrible Doctors Decent and Good Doctors GREAT - Using the power of ultrasound in the emergency department can take your practice to a new level. This podcast explains in detail different scans and techniques for using ultrasound to up your game.

Have you been practicing your lung ultrasound after the last episode? Have you felt that there was just something missing…..just one more piece of the puzzle? If so, hopefully this does it for you. After 2 lung episodes by Mike Stone and a hangout partly about lungs, consider yourself “Stoned”. Luckily, there’s an ancient proverb that says “One can never ...

Yes, we know you’ve heard of the SMACC conference.  If not, stop what your’e doing and go here.  It’s gonna be off the hizzy (as the kids say), and we’re super disappointed that we can’t attend.  Thankfully, the brilliant organizers of SMACC care enough about all of us that they’ve created ways for us to get involved without actually being there ...

Last week Stone dropped some super hot innovation on you with the WIN episode.  This week, we’re going old school and talking lung ultrasound.  OK, so maybe lung ultrasound isn’t old school.  You may have never ultrasounded the lungs before other than pneumothorax, but that’s not due to lack of evidence.  If you’ve been following us on twitter (@ultrasoundpod), then you’ve ...

After those last 3 microcasts I’m sure you’re all sticking needles in vessels under ultrasound guidance like crazy!  As you should. Why would you blindly stick a needle in the body unless you don’t really care where it goes?  We’ve established that much. Now, let’s take it to the next level.  In this episode we demonstrate to you a new ...

I don’t know about you, but we just can’t get enough of sticking needles in vessels!  We’re running out of veins, though, so we’re moving on to the arteries. Not everyone uses ultrasound for arterial lines, but that’s not because there isn’t pretty clear literature for it.  Instead, we think some people may have just not been shown.  So, we apologize for ...

Put down that central line kit!! Now, sure, we were just showing you a couple days ago how to put in an ultrasound guided central line, but it’s usually not necessary.  At Thomas Jefferson they did a study where they tried an US guided PIV on every patient they couldn’t get access on just before placing a central line…….and they eliminated ...

Do you like sticking needles in large veins? Do you like watching the needle go into the vein and doing it safely?  If so, then here you go.  No frills, just how to. For some reason we’ve been mistaken as experts and asked to make some instructional videos for the Roberts & Hedges Online videos.  So we’re gonna release those ...

Alright, so you’re almost ready to really push for ultrasound integration in your medical school, but you just wish that you could hear from someone who is the dean of a medical school that has done this for years and just happens to have founded an organization dedicated to ultrasound in medical education. Well, we anticipated that you’d desire such ...

We promised you “how”, so here it is.  After hearing about all the tremendous things you can do with ultrasound and how it helps medical students learn anatomy and the physical exam better we know what you’re thinking:  “What if I don’t have ultrasound at my medical school?  Am I destined to be a horrible doctor?”  Well, probably.  I mean ...

In case you didn’t notice, it’s now 2013:  The Year of Ultrasound! We know what you’re thinking:  “You guys made that up, didn’t you?”  Actually, no. We wish we had, but this is straight from the top.  AIUM and SUSME are the co-organizers of the 2013: Year of Ultrasound initiative. So we wanted to do our part and talk about something we’ve wanted to talk ...