Welcome to our 3rd POCUS Meeting!

Hosted by POCUS team at Department of Emergency Medicine, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

We discuss BLUE Protocol A review of the original paper by Daniel Lichtenstein and 5 fantastic cases of Lung Ultrasound showing images and clips of COVID 19, Pneumothorax, Pleural effusion & echo, IVC, procedural guidance and more.

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Minutes of POCUS Meeting:
00:00 Dr. Priyadarshini Marathe @PRIYAMARATHE10 Introduction & welcome!

1:00 Dr. Karim Alber @kfalber (AGM & Adult Ambulatory Unit Registrar); "When your patient is blue, promptly perform the BLUE Protocol"

14:00 Prof. Dan Lasserson twitter @DanLasserson (https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/pr...) "Proud Butterfly owner Making the case for 'medically enhanced' Hospital at home"

27:00 Dr. Helene Matte @Helene_Matte (Emergency Medicine Clinical Fellow) "No more radiation for my patients!"

42:30 Dr. Mridula Rajwani @RajwaniMridula (Consultant AGM) "POCUS is not scary!, So useful to use POCUS when the CXR is indeterminate!"

55:00. Dr. Yasir Mohamed @EM_ICM (Emergency Medicine Clinical Fellow) "The moment I fell in love with Ultrasound..."

1:17:50 Dr. Conrad Groenewald @congroen (POCUS & Critical Care Fellow ICM) "Once you commit to scanning, Focus on POCUS to get good images! POCUS is not to be used on its own! Consider patient factors, team dynamic, history, full exam to apply your POCUS findings to decision making"

Thank you to all presenters!

Questions asked and answered:
From the learners perspective, how long do you think it took you, to feel like you could integrate the POCUS BLUE protocol into your patient assessment? Alongside the use of stethoscope?
In my experience, no one really does the BLUE protocol as described. Is there another method, for example the lawn mower approach to look for findings in the lungs?
Did the relatively normal ultrasound, help reassure the patient? Even when a CXR or CTPA was not done?
This was your first ever POCUS scan how do you feel? Tell us about your experience with using the machine and doing this scan.
When the whole team, in a high stress situation was advocating for what sounds like a very reasonable course of action given history and findings and the POCUS then showed something very contrary to expectation, how did you communicate this to the team, change the whole teams view, especially to team members who weren't POCUS positive?

Until next time! Happy scanning...!!

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