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Emergency Medicine (M27)  (Dept. Info)Medicine  (Policies)YR2024
M27 EMED 820Emergency Ultrasound (Clinical Elective)0.0 Unit
Description:Point of care ultrasound is an integral diagnostic and procedural tool for nearly every clinical specialty, but is vitally important to Emergency Medicine. Ultrasound examination at the bedside is noninvasive, painless, and repeatable unless many other common diagnostic tests. However, like all procedures, developing ultrasound skills takes a significant amount of practice and experience.

This rotation will focus on clinical ultrasound image acquisition and interpretation at the bedside. Students will participate in the performance of bedside ultrasound of patients in the Emergency Department. Common applications of Emergency Ultrasound include the FAST exam, pelvic ultrasound, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA), vascular access, renal, ocular, cardiac ultrasound, and DVT.

Students will be involved in direct patient care during this rotation as part of the ultrasound team in the Emergency Department. In general, the student will be in the Emergency Department during weekdays to perform these exams. In addition, the student will meet with the Elective Instructor approximately once per week, to review images or for direct hands-on instruction. At the end of the rotation, the student should be able to obtain images for basic point of care ultrasound examinations and interpret those images for diagnostic purposes. Students may also have the opportunity to practice ultrasound-guided procedures during the rotation.

Student time distribution: Outpatient 80%; Conferences/Lectures 20%; Primary Care 40%; Subspecialty Care 60%
Patients seen weekly: 25+
On-call/weekend responsibility: None
Attributes:Med: VSEC, WUSMEC
Instruction Type:Internship/Practicum Grade Options:P Fees:
Course Type:HomeSame As:N/AFrequency:None / History
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Desc:Location: Barnes-Jewish Hospital (Emergency Department)
Elective contact: Victoria Braun, vbraun@wustl.edu
Rotation length: 2 or 4 weeks
Enrollment limit per block: 1
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