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Critical thinking

@ the point-of-care

A video tutorial

Clinical decisions at the point-of-care demand that practitioners execute a carefully orchestrated cognitive and technical sequence. Point-of-care ultrasound, as an extension to this clinical exam, can enhance this sequence; it can yield real-time, dynamic, and accurate findings to enable those clinical decisions. But does it always make clinical decisions better or more accurate? While the advantages of point-of-care ultrasound are clear, what is less clear sometimes is how practitioners should wield this tool in the clinical context to both increase diagnostic success and reduce diagnostic error.

​In this tutorial, Dr. Smyth walks us through a challenging case of critical hypoxemia and reviews the vital steps to integrate sonographic findings. He further sheds light on how to think when ultrasound may become the center of attention; or even worse, risks de-centering your attention.  We would like to thank Dr. Leo Smyth, senior trainee in General Internal Medicine, at the University of Alberta for his work.
  • Home
  • About
    • The Team
    • Social Media
    • Research >
      • COVID Shunt Study
      • Echo-AKI
      • Curriculum design & implementation
    • Events >
      • ABSono Rounds >
        • ABSono Rounds Recordings
      • Joint Rounds
      • CRUS 2021
    • Training >
      • CCUS Rotation
      • Clinical CCUS Fellowship
      • eCLass Ultrasound
  • Sonology
    • Physics of ultrasound
    • Transducer manipulation
    • Image optimization
    • Machines >
      • X-Porte
      • EDGE
    • Quality >
      • Essentials QPath E
      • Submitting for QA
    • Critical Thinking
  • Echo
    • Standard echo views >
      • Echo in shock VR
    • LV Function Assessment >
      • Regional cardiac anatomy
    • Pitfalls in LV assessment
    • Pericardial space
    • RV function assessment
    • Inferior vena cava
    • Cardiac Output
    • Echo in VTE
    • The Echo Lab >
      • Standard acquisition
      • Key references
    • TEE >
      • Focused 4-view
      • Shunts and Bubble Studies
  • Lung US
    • Overview
    • Pneumothorax detection
    • Interstitial diseases
    • LUS in respiratory failure
    • Pleural Effusion Assessment
    • LUS in Covid-19
  • Whole-body Ultrasound
    • RUSH exam
  • Procedural US
    • VR in HALO
    • Central line (IJ)
    • Central line (Subclavian)
    • Central line (Femoral)
    • Thoracentesis
    • Paracentesis
    • U/S-guided PIV
  • Trauma US
    • eFAST fundamentals
    • eFAST Core Knowledge
    • The Thorax
    • The Heart
    • The Abdomen
  • Neuro
    • Optic nerve sheath diameter
    • Transcranial Doppler
  • GIMUS
    • GIMUS Rounds
    • Rules of GIMUS
  • References and links
    • References
    • Helpful links