The healthcare field is evolving, and as new knowledge and resources become available, members of the medical community engage with the changes to provide the highest quality of...
Primary Care Medicine
Saving Lives Using POCUS
By Megan Lukas, RDMS In New York City, our Emergency Department (ED) treats a diverse population of patients with a large variety of symptoms. We employ point of care ultrasound...
The Win-Win of Pediatric Focused Cardiac POCUS
A 10-year-old boy enters the pediatric emergency room with shortness of breath. Immediately he is admitted, and workup begins. His attending physician conducts imaging during the...
Our Resolution to Pursue Better Care
New Year's resolutions are a tradition that has existed throughout history and can involve personal ambitions and professional goals, all with the hope of improving oneself and...
POCUS Creates Waves in 2020
2020 has been a year of challenges, growth, and resilience. In many ways, the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has interfered with humans' inherently social nature and brought the...
A Milestone of a Year
We all do it. The eleventh month of the year arrives, and we can't help but look back at the last forty or so weeks. We assess each day, determining if we loved enough, laughed...
The Power Behind a Community of POCUS Volunteers
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has revolutionized healthcare, and in doing so, it has reshaped the medical community. In recent years, POCUS has increasingly become recognized...
Moving the Medical Community Forward through Volunteerism: A Willingness to Share What We Know
The 2018 Marvel film Black Panther quickly became a pop culture sensation and wowed many worldwide. The movie spent no time building a loyal fan base and impacting viewers across...
PCA Volunteers Pay it Forward
The healthcare industry has always been united by a common goal: implementing the highest quality of healthcare globally. Advancements in technology, medical practices, and...
Volunteering With POCUS Offers Countless Benefits
In recent years, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has seen growth outside of traditional imaging and radiology because it demonstrates a new caliber of credibility, and the...
Recent Posts
This blog comes from our friends at Peachtree POCUS. Visit their site for the original post and for additional resources. Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is an...
We’re excited to kick off a new project with the faculty of University of Santo Tomas (UST). The focus is on building point-of-care (POCUS) capacity, enabling UST...
By Victor V Rao MBBS, DMRD, RDMS Hydronephrosis is defined as the dilatation of the major and or minor calyces and the renal pelvis due to an obstruction to the flow of...
By Victor V Rao MBBS, DMRD, RDMS Introduction Trauma is one of the leading causes of death in individuals less than 45 years old. Approximately 80% of individuals...
Recently we had the opportunity, in collaboration with Amref International University, to sponsor a webinar for the National Nurses Association of Kenya. The topic of...
By Victor V Rao MBBS, DMRD, RDMS Introduction The gallbladder (GB) ultrasound examination can be challenging at times due to patient body habitus or bowel gas. With...
By Victor V Rao MBBS, DMRD, RDMS Introduction Abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is defined as a focal dilatation of a segment of the abdominal aorta with an outer wall to...
By Shelby Jones Shelby is a senior at George Mason University studying public health. She is a current intern with POCUS Certification academy working within the...
By Victor Rao MBBS, DMRD, RDMS - Abdomen, Ob/Gyn (APCA) Introduction Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a medical condition in which a thrombus develops in a deep vein,...
