GUSI RESOURCES
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How To Videos
How to upload to GUSI Scan Portfolio from a Butterfly handheld ultrasound
Key Articles
FAST Exam/Trauma
- Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial of Point-of-Care, Limited Ultrasonography for Trauma in the Emergency Department: The First Sonography Outcomes Assessment Program Trial
- Emergency department echocardiography improves outcome in penetrating cardiac injury.
- Effect of Abdominal Ultrasound on Clinical Care, Outcomes, and Resource Use Among Children With Blunt Torso Trauma: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Use of the focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination and its impact on abdominal computed tomography use in hemodynamically stable children with blunt torso trauma.
- Focused assessment with sonography for trauma: current perspectives
Gall Bladder
- Revised estimates of diagnostic test sensitivity and specificity in suspected biliary tract disease
- Accuracy of ED Bedside Ultrasound for Identification of gallstones: retrospective analysis of 575 studies
- History, Physical, Laboratory Testing, and Emergency Department Ultrasonography for the Diagnosis of Acute Cholecystitis
- Accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute calculous cholecystitis: review of the literature
Abdominal Aorta
- Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm: A Best-Evidence Systematic Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
- The Validity of Ultrasonographic Scanning as Screening Method for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Systematic Review: Emergency Department Bedside Ultrasonography for Diagnosing Suspected Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
- Diagnostic accuracy of non‐radiologist performed ultrasound for abdominal aortic aneurysm: systematic review and meta‐analysis
- Ultrasonography Screening for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms: A Systematic Evidence Review for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
Renal
- Radiological imaging of patients with suspected urinary tract stones: national trends, diagnoses, and predictors.
- STONE PLUS: Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients With Suspected Renal Colic, Using a Clinical Prediction Tool Combined With Point-of-Care Limited Ultrasonography
- Ultrasonography and plain film versus intravenous urography in ureteric colic.
- The Accuracy and Prognostic Value of Point-of-care Ultrasound for Nephrolithiasis in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
- Ultrasonography versus Computed Tomography for Suspected Nephrolithiasis
Cardiac Echo
- Emergency department echocardiography improves outcome in penetrating cardiac injury.
- Emergency department point-of-care ultrasonography improves time to pericardiocentesis for clinically significant effusions.
- Bedside echocardiography by emergency physicians.
- Determination of left ventricular function by emergency physician echocardiography of hypotensive patients.
- Diagnostic Accuracy of Right Ventricular Dysfunction Markers in Normotensive Emergency Department Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism.
- Diagnosing Acute Heart Failure in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
- Cardiopulmonary limited ultrasound examination for “quick-look” bedside application.
- Emergency department point-of-care ultrasound in out-of-hospital and in-ED cardiac arrest.
- Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in the Emergent Setting: A Consensus Statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and American College of Emergency Physicians
Lung
- A lung ultrasound sign allowing bedside distinction between pulmonary edema and COPD: the comet-tail artifact.
- BLUE-protocol and FALLS-protocol: two applications of lung ultrasound in the critically ill.
- Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in children: a meta-analysis.
- Accuracy of Lung Ultrasonography versus Chest Radiography for the Diagnosis of Adult Community-Acquired Pneumonia: Review of the Literature and Meta-Analysis
- Ultrasound in the Diagnosis & Management of Pleural Effusions
- Lung ultrasound training: a systematic review of published literature in clinical lung ultrasound training
- Multicentre pilot study evaluation of lung ultrasound for the management of paediatric pneumonia in low-resource settings: a study protocol
DVT
- Comparison of the Accuracy of Emergency Department-Performed Point-of-Care-Ultrasound (POCUS) in the Diagnosis of Lower-Extremity Deep Vein Thrombosis.
- Systematic review of emergency physician-performed ultrasonography for lower-extremity deep vein thrombosis.
- Accuracy of emergency physician–performed ultrasonography in the diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound for a Deep Venous Thrombosis
Skin Soft Tissue
- In patients presenting to the emergency department with skin and soft tissue infections what is the diagnostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasonography for the diagnosis of abscess compared to the current standard of care? A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Point‐of‐care Ultrasound for Diagnosis of Abscess in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections
- Comparison of computerized tomography and ultrasound for diagnosing soft tissue abscesses
- My patient is injured: identifying foreign bodies with ultrasound
Musculoskeletal
- Point-of-care ultrasound for the diagnosis of shoulder dislocation: A systematic review and meta-analysis
- Accuracy of MRI, MR Arthrography, and Ultrasound in the Diagnosis of Rotator Cuff Tears: A Meta-Analysis
- Ultrasound for Distal Forearm Fracture: A Systematic Review and Diagnostic MetaAnalysis
- Musculoskeletal imaging: medicare use, costs, and potential for cost substitution.
- Ultrasound (US) Findings in Patients with Knee Pain: Sensitivity and Specificity for the Diagnosis of Knee Osteoarthritis and Development of an US Prediction Score
Guidelines, Position Papers, and Other Resources
- AAFP Recommended Curriculum Guidelines for Point of Care Ultrasound for Family Medicine Residents
- ACEP Ultrasound Guidelines: Emergency, Point-of-care, and Clinical Ultrasound Guidelines in Medicine
- ACP Statement in Support of Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Internal Medicine
- AIUM Training Guidelines for Physicians, Chiropractors and Other Licensed Medical Providers Who Evaluate and Interpret Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound Examinations
- Society for Critical Care POCUS Guidelines, Part 1 and Part 2
- Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in the Emergent Setting: A Consensus Statement of the American Society of Echocardiography and American College of Emergency Physicians
- International Federation for Emergency Medicine: Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum Guidelines
- AIUM Practice Parameter for the Performance of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Examinations
- AIUM- All Training Guidelines
- Internal Medicine Point-of-Care Ultrasound Curriculum: Consensus Recommendations from the Canadian Internal Medicine Ultrasound (CIMUS) Group
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound for Hospitalists: A Position Statement of the Society of Hospital Medicine
- American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) position statement: interventional musculoskeletal ultrasound in sports medicine
- Letter about POCUS training for Family Medicine from AAFP Board Chair to AAFP President
- AAFP Statement on Training and Priivileges for New Technology
- American College of Cardiology Overview of POCUS
- Ultrasound Credentialing Document at Contra Costa/UCSF Family Medicine Residency
- Billing and Reimbursement for POCUS – from Fuji Sonosite
- Sample AMSSM Business Plan for Sports Medicine POCUS
- GUSI Ultrasound Billing Catalog (sample)
- GUSI Webinar slides, POCUS credentialing and billing, March 2022
- POCUS Privileges 2022 Bornemann GUSI
- POCUS OSCE
- GUSI Webinar slides, Implementing a POCUS curriculum, April 2022
- Bornemann research article, POCUS curriculum, JUM 2017
- ACGME Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Family Medicine