News is out a bit late today… with Suean having come down with a bad pneumonia. Waiting on some results in the hospital at the moment so keeping myself busy. News of note this week: the team at MetroHealth @MH_EMultrasound look into normal 1st trimester ultrasound (15 March) the POCUS Journal (@POCUSJournal) highlights the plague of phantom scans in cardiac and trauma cases (14 March), and and a cool article on shape shifting ultrasound stickers (9 March). Checking out now – waiting on a CT. Mike (and a very ill Suean) 15 March Check out the latest video by @mtabbut about the normal 1st ..read more

It’s International Women’s Day… so we’d like to take the opportunity to thank all the incredible role models that we work with who are breaking barriers, inspiring change, and shaping the world around them. As ultrasound has traditionally been a career path pursued by women, it’s great to see so many leading the way – whether it be in areas such as developing technology or teaching – and pursuing careers beyond imaging. To everyone – have a great day! This week we have news from around the globe, with highlights including: an Australian article on ‘Cultivating Competency in Cardiac Sonograp ..read more

February is almost done… which is just downright amazing. This year seems to be running in double speed – thank goodness we have an extra day this year just to catch up!! Highlights from the ultrasound world of #FOAMed this week include: Tracy Morton (@TracyMorton) reports on how rural British Columbia is rising to meet the challenge of scale, training, and barriers of POCUS use (23 February), and in a topic close to our hearts, a piece in @WINFOCUS on POCUS training among healthcare providers (21 February) PLUSf- a little extra for experts – check out the article in @Medicalrepublic (22 ..read more

It has been a romantic week… but who needs roses when you have gel and the latest ultrasound system at hand Highlights from the #FOAMed world to take a look at this week include: Michael Prats (@PratsEM) and the US GEL Podcast of SCUF interviews Part 2 (13 February). more from the team at MetroHealth and @mtabbut on Morel-Lavallee lesions (16 February) Out the door now for the weekend… Mike and Suean 16 February Check out the latest video by@mtabbut about using POCUS to evaluate for Morel-Lavallée Lesions. https://t.co/5N4MAfnhKf #POCUS #Ultrasound #MSKUltrasound #Orthopedics #orthotwit ..read more

Hey crew… this afternoon we bid farewell to another group of new ultrasound users. It has been a fun week and we’ll be sorry to see them all go. But next week we start all over again A quiet news week – I’m wondering if there is less FOAMed floating around these days? Do take a look at: a @WINFOCUS article that compates contamination rates of sterile-covered and uncovered transducers for ultrasound-guided peripheral intravenous lines (7 February). a piece on necrotizing fasciitis by @MH_EMultrasoundand @mtabbut (9 February) Better get back to the floor – there’s some POCUS to teach ..read more

Happy 2024 to all… we’re back on deck, the email backlog has been cleared (mostly) and we’re all set to kick some ultrasound goals in 2024. We hope you’ve all had the opportunity to get some rest and are ready to reach for the stars with your ultrasound journey too – we’re always here to help accelerate that learning curve and launch you on your way. Plenty of news to run through from the past week – we recommend looking at: Michael Prats (@PratsEM) talking to the who’s who of ultrasound at SCUF in US GEL PODCAST #154 (30 January) A recent piece in Australian Critical Care Journal (@Aus_CC ..read more

The time has come… to pack up the systems, put the probes safely to bed, turn off the gel warmers and hit the beach. Everyone here is ready to relax and reflect on a mega year – for me there’s a small issue around having not done the present shopping yet…but hey these things are always best done under pressure! 2023 has been action packed – new courses, new tech and literally hundreds of new faces passing the threshold of ZeduHQ. The vibe around here created by each and every one of you has been electric – it really has been awesome, with the energy motivating us every day to be the best ed ..read more

We’re almost at vacation time… which makes this the penultimate weekly wrap for 2023. Even though the end of year happens at the same time each year (funny that) it really has crept up on us all fast! Almost like we weren’t expecting it… In this week’s free ultrasound news take a look at: Chris Yap’s (@casulatysrus) article on POCUS and PACS – that old bugbear about image storage and governance (7 December) Research into the ‘Diagnostic accuracy of Point Of Care UltraSound (POCUS) in clinical practice: A retrospective, emergency department based study’ in the latest Journal of Clinical Ultr ..read more

December has finally arrived… which really sets us up for the official countdown to holidays. We’ve got a busy few weeks as people have been looking to complete their ultrasound new years’ resolution at the very last minute – but the days are numbered! And for those of you looking, the ZeduHQ will be closed from Thursday 21 December, reopening Monday 8 January. In this week’s free ultrasound news take a look at: The latest POCUS Journal (@POCUSJournal) is out – a load of new free research to catch up with (28 November) Adrian Wong’s (@avkwong) piece in Intenzive Care Medicine (@yourICM) on ..read more

Things have got really busy at ZeduHQ this week… it’s like everyone has come back from Melbourne Cup weekend and realised everything has to be sewn up, wrapped up and completed before Christmas! Yikes – not much time before Santa arrives but the ultrasound will get through News this week is we’ve launched Australia’s first dedicated Ultrasound Guided Procedures for Pain Medicine course – designed around the specific needs of specialists in the field. We’ve provided a lot of training over the years on an ad hoc basis, so the development of this program has been long in the making. So if ..read more