Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has become increasingly popular in medicine due to its ease of access, reduction in need for consultative ultrasonography, and usefulness in diagnosing common conditions [3,4,5]. The use of POCUS in the inpatient settings of emergency rooms, ICU, Surgical and Medical Wards has been established [3,4,5] The availability of ultrasound machines and [...]

Background: As more hospitalists have gained basic point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) skills, the desire for training in more advanced POCUS applications has increased as well as the need for developing faculty with an advanced POCUS skillset, that can support expansion of training and clinical integration into practice. Current certificate and credentialing pathways help build basic POCUS [...]

Background: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a valuable tool in the assessment of acutely ill hospitalized patients. Although hospitalists frequently wish to use POCUS in their clinical practice, many have never received formal training. The Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) offers a robust certificate of completion (COC) program in POCUS incorporating online learning modules, in-person courses, [...]

Background: For the past 4 years, we have taught PGY-2 residents basic skills in lung, cardiac, abdominal, and vascular POCUS based on national courses. Current methods of assessing POCUS skills focus on image acquisition and image interpretation without clinical context, however using POCUS for patient care requires the clinician to integrate their findings to a [...]

Background: Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is a clinical tool for cardiac evaluation of hospitalized patients but is frequently associated with a greater hospital length of stay.1 At our institution, delays in TTE completion have been attributed to a shortage of sonographers and overutilization by inpatient teams for certain clinical conditions. From January to October 2023, only [...]

Background: Point-of-care-ultrasound is increasingly used as a diagnostic tool in a variety of specialties. Multiple studies have shown that POCUS may reduce time to diagnosis with similar accuracy to radiology scans (Healey, Fischer), may improve procedural safety (Cho, Rodrigues), and may reduce the need for additional studies and ionizing radiation (Soni). As such there is [...]

Case Presentation: A 70-year-old woman with morbid obesity and non-alcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis was initially treated at an outside hospital for hematemesis. She received aggressive volume resuscitation, a blood transfusion, and was found to have esophageal varices. She was transferred for endovascular management of her varices. During transfer, she had nausea treated with an antiemetic administered [...]