Serratus Anterior Plane Block Remote Learning Curriculum.

Introduction: Regional anesthesia aids in management of acute pain in the emergency department, but many emergency physicians remain inadequately trained. Further complicating medical education, our academic center continues to use remote learning as the primary setting for residency didactics. This project aims to create a remote conference session on ultrasound-guided serratus anterior plane blocks (USG-SAPB).

The effect of a point-of-care ultrasound curriculum on PAs in emergency medicine.

To address identified learning gaps among physician associates/assistants (PAs) working with point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in our ED, we designed and implemented a longitudinal POCUS curriculum. This curriculum introduced the 12 main POCUS applications for emergency medicine with presession educational assignments and in-person learning sessions. We used the Kirkpatrick framework of evaluation to develop our metrics of measurement.

Emergency Department Point-of-Care Echocardiography and Lung Ultrasound in Predicting COVID-19 Severity.

Objectives: We sought to determine if point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) performed on patients with COVID-19 in the emergency department (ED) can help predict disease course, severity, or identify complications.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of adult ED patients who tested positive for COVID-19 at hospital admission or within 2 weeks of presentation and received heart or lung POCUS. Clips were reviewed for presence of decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), right ventricular dilation, presence of B-lines, and pleural line abnormalities.

Clinical outcomes of adults with eosinophilic esophagitis with severe stricture.

Background And Aims: Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is an inflammatory disease of the esophagus. Its prevalence has been increasing steadily over the past 3 decades. The prognosis of patients with EoE presenting with severe esophageal strictures is poorly understood.