Critical Care Ultrasound Information

Critical Care Ultrasound (CCUS) information and resources

Beside scanning schedule
Every other Monday at 3pm
8th floor medical ICU workroom

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Sending studies to Qpath from the SonoSite Xporte CLICK HERE

CCUS Curriculum documents

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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)

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Ultrasound physics/knobology (3 videos, 32 min)

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Basic Cardiac

LVEF (15 min)

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Caveats to above (2 videos, 21 min):

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EPSS (16 min)

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Pericardial Effusion & tamponade (2 videos, 40 min)

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Lung/Pleura

B-lines (15 min)

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Comprehensive lung scanning (2 videos, 76 min)

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Philips' "Point-of-care lung ultrasound" eBook (comprehensive but short)

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Thoracentesis (3 min)

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Abdomen & Paracentes

FAST (14 min)

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Hydronephrosis (14 min) 

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AAA (32 Min)

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Small bowel obstruction (13 min):

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Paracentesis (10 min):

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IVS & Fluid Responsiveness 

IVC controversy FOR (4 min)

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IVC controversy against (23 min)

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Cardiac output (5 min)

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IVC, fluid responsiveness, cardiac output – putting it all together (2 videos, 48 min)

V-1v-2

DVT

Lower extremity DVT evaluation (25 min)

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Ultrasound guided IV access

Central venous catheter placement (20 min)

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Peripheral IV placement (20 min)

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Advanced cardiac

RV function (2 videos, 30 min)

V-1v-2

Diastology (2 videos, 58 min)

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Diastology summary/how to (4 min)

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Doppler physics (2 videos, 31 min)

V-1v-2

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

Contacts:

matthew.lipton@vumc.org 

meredith.e.pugh@vumc.org