My favorite examination so far, and the source of so many jokes has been that of the optic nerve sheath. It’s not only fun to say, but it’s funny watching people perform this exam on themselves. Why on earth would you want to perform this exam? Is it our roundabout way of getting colleagues to […]
New to EMSPOCUS? Start here. Our own Jedi master, Jason Bowman, gives a fantastic overview on point of care ultrasound, why it is the inevitable future of prehospital care and why the concept of the modern “mobile intensive care unit” is, at best, a joke. Click through to the Youtube page for a full […]
Today’s talk is going to go over some of the modes and settings you might find on your ultrasound machine. As you can imagine there are multiple ways to use an ultrasound machine. If you’re talking about sending out a sound wave and listening for the echo, you can probably imagine how this could be displayed […]
Ultrasound probes. Why are there different kinds of them and how do they work? One of the more perplexing aspects for newcomers to ultrasound is often the probes. Isn’t there an “abdominal probe” and a “cardiac probe”, so why don’t they make an “EMS probe?” Today we will talk about the ultrasound probe and hopefully […]
Starting off with a beat up old ultrasound machine that I had to clean the blood and hair off of before placing it in service on the ambulance, I didn’t know what we were getting in to. But over the next couple years we found out one thing. Ultrasound is awesome. Seriously, it’s the future […]