The Usask Ultrasound crew has put together a great Sono Symposium for this Sunday, April 3rd.

With over 50 tickets sold, SASKSONO16 (twitter hashtag #SASKSONO16) is promising to be both educational and loads of fun. We’ll start the day with inspiring and state of the art talks from Saskatchewan physicians who use Point of Care Ultrasound daily. There will be time for questions, refreshments and a panel session at the end of the morning.

After lunch we’ll be hosting lightning oral abstracts on research – a great opportunity to see what has been done and where POCUS research at Usask is heading.

The we’re off to the Sono Games! This interactive, audience inclusive session will feature 2 competing teams battling it out for the prestigious Sono Cup! Expect to see, and engage in, image interpretation, image generation assessment, and some other “surprise” skill challenges!

Come for the whole day, or come and go as needed – it promises to be a great day of POCUS education and inspiration!

Cheers,

Paul Olszynski

                         SASKSONO16

Check out the link below to learn how Point of Care Ultrasound is transforming care in Saskatoon’s Emergency Departments.

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The fine people at Usask Ultrasound are organizing a pretty cool POCUS event – Speakers, rapid Research Abstracts, and Sono Games! Stay tuned!

USask Ultrasound Exec 2014/2015 receiving SMSS “Student Interest Group of the Year”

Here is a link to the video tutorial on the basics of lung ultrasound and a guide for our pilot study protocol.

Clinician Performed Ultrasound continues to grow at the University of Saskatchewan! With pre-clerkship and clerkship programming reaching full swing, research projects abound (in Emergency Medicine, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, and Rural Primary Care) and several courses slated for Spring/2016 – there are lots of opportunities for trainees and clinicians to get involved in Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) at USask.

What-more, plans are underway to develop a clerkship POCUS Elective as well as a POCUS Fellowship in acute and critical care POCUS.

Watch the Sasksonic calendar for important dates including upcoming: SKanapalouza Feb 24th, Emergency Department Targeted Ultrasound (EDTU) in Regina (May 2016), and Echo Guided Life Support (EGLS) in Saskatoon (April, 2016).

Want to get involved? email sasksonic@gmail.com

We’re hosting a pre-SEMAC SKanapalouza this fall, on Oct 14th from 4:30 pm to 7:30 pm! We will be covering the core CEUS IP indications (pericardial effusion and contractility, AAA, FAST and Obs). Expect 12 patients (48 scans) in the three hours.

Sign up and details through sasksonic@gmail.com

It’s official, Sasksonic is hosting a student/resident EDE course this Oct 2nd

We’re looking to enroll senior medical students as well as residents from Internal Medicine and General Surgery. The course will cover: pneumothorax, pleural fluid, pericardial effusion, AAA and abdominal free fluid. The course runs from 9am-5pm. Cost is reduced for students and residents.

Those interested should contact sasksonic@gmail.com.

Cheers,

Paul O

Things at Sasksonic are starting up again with loads of exciting events coming up this fall!

We have several PoCUS courses lined up (EDE and EGLS), new faculty members, and new modules for undergrad ultrasound education!

Stay tuned!

Paul Olszynski

With both the Internal Medicine and Anesthesia programs now having participated in substantial PoCUS training sessions, we’ll be finishing off the academic year by introducing our General Surgery residents to ultrasound in Trauma (May 15th). The Extended Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma (EFAST) scan is now considered a major part of trauma assessment, guiding the primary survey in both blunt and penetrating trauma as well as helping prioritize further trauma management and care.

This last session marks the end of a very successful first (academic) year for Sasksonic. That said, we’re always looking for new talent and more instructors! If interested, please send a note to sasksonic@gmail.com.

Highlights for the coming summer months include an IP supervised scanning session (sometime in June) and then the EDE1 and EGLS courses this fall. Check out the calendar (on the right side of the main page or under the Training Tab – CEUS Training Center page).

Cheers,

Paul Olszynski

Well, there don’t appear to be any signs of a slow down this year, at least not as far as clinician performed ultrasound goes. The big highlight has to be our success with securing funding for Qpath! This is a wireless image archiving unit (think internal PACS) that is also, and just as importantly, a super sophisticated training suite. Trainees will be able to upload their images onto their accounts and send them to their instructors (via secure server) for review and sign off! Check out this short 4 minute video from Vanderbilt EM (https://vimeo.com/83708223) A huge thanks goes out to the RUH foundation for their support! This year’s Bev Leech Conference (Anesthesia conference April 25th) will include a substantial PoCUS segment focusing on resuscitative and peri-operative PoCUS. Of course, no update would be complete without mention of the exciting PoCUS courses coming to Saskatoon this year. We are hosting the EDE2 Course (April 16th and 17th) to a team of 20 docs from throughout Saskatchewan. Next up, we just confirmed that EGLS is coming to Saskatoon this fall (looks like Oct 17 and 18) Stay tuned! Cheers, Paul Olszynski, MD, MEd, CCFP (EM)