Ultrasound with Gaynor Prince - WEMcast re-post

In this session, we interview Gaynor Prince. Gaynor
is an emergency physician based in New Zealand and has
developed a subspecialty interest in ultrasound in ED.
We take a look at point of care ultrasound, its utility and
its limitations. We will be especially focussing on the EFAST and
how it has been adaptive and progressive in point of care
treatment in the past 5 years.  We also take a look
at ultrasound probes and the positive and negative
interaction with tissue. Gaynor unpacks some of the fundamental
advantages and disadvantages of POCUS and how it has been
adapted, been made portable and democratised
amongst clinicians in recent years.


We unpack the principles of EFAST, what we are looking for, when
to look and where. We examine the difference image
representations of fluid, blood, ascites, urine, intestinal
contents, lungs, air.  Gaynor them looks at
the anatomical variations and how to optimise the view,
interplay with clinical questioning, repetition of scans and
preferential windows to see the anatomy. We go sequentially
through the EFAST and look at tips and tricks from Gaynor's
practice and how these can be related to
everyone's ultrasound practice and decision making.


We finally look at a prime example of when USS has
been really useful to Gaynor's practice in one of
the remotest and most extreme environments
- Antarctica. She recalls a story of when ultrasound greatly
assisted
her decision making, illustrating some of the
unique examples of this modality in remote and austere
locations.


You can see more from Gaynor
here: https://www.wem.academy/videos/extreme-medicine-research/ultrasoundinextremeenvironments/


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