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One-Hour Concurrent Session

Image Interpretation in Critical Care Ultrasound: Cognitive Skills (Guideline)

Sunday, February 23, 2025
4:30pm – 5:30pm Eastern Time
Location: W414
CE: 1

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is indispensable in critical care. This session will introduce the new SCCM adult ultrasound guidelines focused update and teach POCUS image interpretation and pathology identification through an interactive format aimed at both well-versed and novice sonographers. Speakers will use the critical thinking framework to teach analysis of POCUS images with focus on: 1) identification of the ultrasound view from the acquired image, 2) appropriateness of the image with regard to technical specifications, 3) probe parameters to delineate what qualitative and quantitative parameters can be deduced given limitations of the view, 4) identification of artifacts (vs. anatomic structures or pathology), and 5) the pathology itself. In this interactive session, a systematic approach will be used to show a variety of common and uncommon POCUS findings. Attendees will participate, identifying the probe, window/view, key structures, image quality, ways to improve the image, artifact identification, and image interpretation.

View more information in SCCM's Critical Care Literature Guide.

Learning Objectives:

  • Formulate a differential diagnosis with key abnormalities found on ultrasound in various critical care pathologies
  • Differentiate critical care pathology from aberrant images created by technical limitations, probe-related factors, or inappropriate probe manipulation
  • Illustrate the determination of adequacy of each ultrasound view for qualitative and quantitative analysis for critical care pathology
  • Discriminate among key characteristics of various critical care pathologies in acute resuscitation scenarios

Presentations:

  • 4:35pm – 4:50pm Eastern Time
    Focused Adult USG Guidelines Update

    AARTI SARWAL, MD, FCCM (she/her/hers) – Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

  • 4:50pm – 5:05pm Eastern Time
    Case-Based Cardiac Ultrasonography/Echocardiography

    Sarah Bain, MD (she/her/hers) – Virginia Mason Medical Center

  • 5:05pm – 5:20pm Eastern Time
    Case-Based Noncardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasonography

    Diane McLaughlin, DNP, FNCS, FCCM (she/her/hers) – Barrow Neurological Institute