Emergency Ultrasound Newsroom

November 15, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

CUAP Management Award Winners 2023

The CUAP Board presents Management Awards to recognize outstanding programs and their directors that have truly gone above and beyond during this academic year. Award recipients were established by bl...

November 13, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

POCUS 2-Minute Video Challenge

Section leaders came up with a fun POCUS 2-Minute Video Challenge. We invited our POCUS community to create a 2-minute video teaching the audience something about POCUS. We kept the prompt broad so we...

October 19, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

The Genicular Nerve Block for Knee Pain in the Emergency Department

Maria Eberle, MD Emergency Ultrasound Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medical Center Farnam Kazi, MD Emergency Ultrasound Fellow, Department of Emergency Medicine, Maimonides Medi...

October 4, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Simulation Cases

See all our Simulation Cases here

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

EMRA Ultrasound Committee Update

The EMRA Ultrasound Committee is excited to share some updates on what our leaders have been working on the last few months:

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Lessons Learned from a 20 Years Running Research POCUS Symposium

The Emergency Ultrasound Division of Mount Sinai Morningside West, formerly known as St. Luke’s-Roosevelt, held its 20th Annual Regional Ultrasound Symposium titled “The Next Big Thing in Emergency Ul...

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Frances Russell on POCUS Research Careers

I have to say through medical school and residency I was not very interested in research. It was in fellowship that I really became interested, and I believe that it was for multiple reasons.

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Nova Panebianco on Multi-Disciplinary Clinical Ultrasound Fellowships

Our first Clinical Ultrasound (CUS) Fellow was Dr. Cameron Baston in 2016. At the time, with over 120 EM ultrasound fellowships nationally, and lots of fantastic programs geographically close, filling...

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Arun Nagdev – On Innovation and Integration of Nerve Blocks

The benefit of working at Highland is that there are a group of physicians who are block fanatics and always looking for ways to implement blocks into emergency care.

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Chair’s Letter

It has been an honor and privilege serving as ACEP EUS Chair over this past year. I have enjoyed learning with you all and advocating on behalf of our specialty.

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Petra Duran-Gehring on the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Management Course

The EUMC is usually held as a pre conference to the ACEP Scientific Assembly and originated from an ACEP section grant in 2003 to assist physicians tasked with the implementation and maintenance of ul...

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Lori Stolz on POCUS Billing and Revenue Infrastructure

My department really knew that they had missed the boat with ultrasound. It is a historic institution and a great leader in emergency medicine. As this wave of Emergency Ultrasound had taken hold acro...

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

ACEP EUS Safety Subcommittee Update

The safety subcommittee has been hard at work over recent years with some remarkable accomplishments.

October 2, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Planning your Best Clinical Ultrasound Conference

So, you’re planning your first ultrasound conference. We have been there. Whether it is for 20 or 2,000 people, we share six ways to make your ultrasound conference a standout learner-centered, inclus...

September 13, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

PEM POCUS Curriculum Toolbox

The ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section Pediatric Subcommittee has developed a PEM POCUS Curriculum Toolkit. This toolkit features sample curricula, tools, literature and much more.

September 11, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Take Your Ultrasound Program to the Next Level with CUAP

By Vivek S. Tayal, MD, FACEP and Jim Villareal, MD, FACEP The ECRI Institute, a nonprofit organization that evaluates health care technology, published a report of the “Top 10 Medical Technology Hazar...

July 25, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Chair's Letter

This is an exciting time of year. Our new students, residents, and fellows have joined our programs, excited to expand their ultrasound knowledge and to experience that spark that drew us all to the f...

July 24, 2023

EUFAC Update - Ultrasound Certification and Accreditation

The Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship Accreditation Council is approaching their 3-year anniversary. In just three short years, 127 fellowships have been accredited in Advanced Emergency Ultrasound (AEM...

July 24, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Meghan Herbst: On Building a SonoGames Team

Meghan K. Herbst, MD, FACEP, University of Connecticut Questions posed by Stephen Alerhand, MD

July 23, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Bret Nelson: On Lecture Presentations and Career Development

Bret Nelson, MD, FACEP, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Questions posed by Stephen Alerhand, MD

July 23, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Sono Hot Seat with Srikar Adhikari: On POCUS Research

Srikar Adhikari, MD, FACEP, University of Arizona Questions posed by Stephen Alerhand, MD

July 22, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

BlockCamp: A One-Day Boot Camp to Teach Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks

In the setting of an ongoing opioid epidemic, alternative modalities for pain management have become popular in the emergency department (ED).

July 21, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Probing the Literature National Journal Club

The Probing the Literature National Journal Club is a joint endeavor between the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section and the SAEM Academy of Emergency Ultrasound and was created to fill a need in AEMUS ...

July 20, 2023 • Section

Common Coding and Billing Modifiers Used in POCUS

CPT modifiers are generally two additional alphanumeric characters that are added on to the initial CPT code to designate additional information or change the description of service to improve accurac...

July 19, 2023 • Section

Letter to a Rising Ultrasound Fellow

The year passes by quickly. By the time you move to your new city, learn the EMR, and take a moment to breathe, it’s already time for the written boards.

July 18, 2023

Global POCUS Subcommittee Update

The goal for the Global Subcommittee this year is to highlight our partners working in international settings and to learn how they are using POCUS to advance clinical care.

July 17, 2023

ACEP EUS Simulation Subcommittee Update

The mission of the ACEP emergency ultrasound section simulation subcommittee is to provide the ACEP, the ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Section, Clinical Ultrasound community, and Simulation community with...

June 13, 2023

Sound Advice Winner 2022

To increase interaction with individual programs and help disseminate innovative ideas, we launched this unique segment at ACEP Emergency Ultrasound Management Course 2021. Below are the five chosen p...

April 27, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

Chair's Letter

Spring is beginning soon (and eventually the weather will catch up). This is the season of growth as we see flowers bloom and leaves growing on trees.

April 27, 2023 • Emergency Ultrasound Section

The AEMUS Focused Practice Designation: Updates and Lessons Learned

From March 7-11, 2022, the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) administered the first focused practice designation (FPD) examination in Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS). The...
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