Wave-Makers: Influential Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Articles from 2023 (AEUS Sponsored)

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) is a continually growing field, and impactful research is imperative for its advancement. Dissemination of high-quality ultrasound research and understanding the most up to date evidence are important for broader scale improvement in patient care and can give insight to advancing educational initiatives. With over a hundred POCUS research articles being published each year, it can be challenging to stay up to date with the current literature and to filter through all of the available publications to identify the highest-quality evidence. In this presentation, we will summarize the most impactful POCUS articles of 2023 as determined by an expert panel. We will utilize interactive case- and question-based techniques to present the newest evidence and the top articles in the field of emergency ultrasound as determined by an Academic Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS) committee after review of all ultrasound-related articles published in the year 2023 using a standardized grading rubric.

We will discuss new evidence as it relates to ultrasound education, disease diagnosis, procedural guidance, and patient care optimization. We will present the best observational studies, randomized controlled trials, systematic review and meta-analysis articles, medical education studies and broadscale innovation studies. We will discuss potential methodologic limitations and how to improve upon such limitations in future work. Throughout the presentation, we will utilize interactive questions to engage the audience and to gain an understanding of audience comprehension of the studies, how the studies will impact their clinical practice or educational curricula, and as a place the audience can ask questions. We will use case presentations to bring relevance to the audience. Our diverse group of speakers have expertise in point of care ultrasound, clinical research, and medical education.

Presenters:

Frances Russell, MD
Laura Oh, MD
Ryan C. Gibbons, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAIUM
Michael Gottlieb, MD
Lynn P. Roppolo, MD, FACEP
Youyou Duanmu, MD, MPH
Joshua J. Davis, MD
Lawrence A. Melniker, MD, MS, MBA
Stephanie C. DeMasi, MD

Authors

Frances Russell, MD

Indiana University
Frances Russell, MD is a tenured associate professor of emergency medicine and the ultrasound research director in the division of ultrasound at the Indiana University School of Medicine. She earned her Doctor of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. She completed her residency training at the University of Connecticut and completed an ultrasound fellowship at Rush Medical Center and Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Russell’s research interests include point of care ultrasound for acute heart failure and undifferentiated shortness of breath. She has over 50 peer-reviewed publications, has received external grant funding from the NIH NHLBI and American Heart Association, in 2021 received the SAEM Academy of Ultrasound Academic Excellence Award and in 2023 received the SAEM Academy of Ultrasound Most Prolific Researcher Award.
Dr. Russell currently serves as the Research Officer for the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Academy of Emergency Ultrasound and ACEP Ultrasound Research Subcommittee co-leader. She has been a speaker at the ACEP Ultrasound Management Course, Rocky Mountain Winter Conference, and The Heart Course.
Laura Oh, MD

Emory University

Dr. Oh is an Associate Professor at Emory University. Her academic interests include emergency ultrasound education and research, and faculty development. She is the former ACEP Academic Affairs Committee Chair, Course Director of ACEP Virtual Grand Rounds, and Associate Course Director of SAEM/AACEM's eLEAD faculty development program. She is a member of the SAEM Program Committee and SAEM Education Committee, and has been a faculty mentor for the ACEP Teaching Fellowship and SAEM AEUS Grantwriting Program. She is the PI of a DoD funded clinical trial related to contrast enhanced ultrasound in blunt abdominal trauma.
Ryan C. Gibbons, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAIUM

Temple University School of Medicine

Ryan C. Gibbons, MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FAIUM is a proud graduate of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine (LKSOM) at Temple University where he completed his Emergency Medicine (EM) residency, serving as chief resident, followed by an Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography (AEMUS) fellowship at Temple as well. Currently, Dr Gibbons is an Associate Professor of EM and the Director of Ultrasound in Undergraduate Medical Education (UME) and was appointed the inaugural John M. Daly, MD, & Measey Foundation Endowed Professor in Medical Education Innovation at LKSOM for developing and implementing a 4-year longitudinal point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) curriculum. Additionally, Ryan serves as the AEMUS fellowship director and the Associate Director of the Division of Emergency Ultrasound in the Department of EM. As associate director, Ryan has been instrumental in the success of the emergency ultrasound division, expanding the AEMUS fellowship and starting an IM POCUS fellowship as well. Dr Gibbons has won numerous medical student and resident teaching awards demonstrating his passion for POCUS and education.
Dr Gibbons has published over fifty peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts, and book chapters. As a leading POCUS expert, he has given more than one hundred regional, national, and international POCUS presentations and educational workshops. Ryan serves as a peer reviewer for Annals of Emergency Medicine and the Journal of Emergency Medicine (JEM), as well as an ultrasound section editor for the Western Journal of Emergency Medicine (WJEM). His research has been highlighted by leading emergency medicine journals and ultrasound outlets, including AEM, JEM, WJEM, EM-RAP, the Ultrasound GEL podcast, Rebel Cast, Journal Feed, Aunt Minnie, Medical Research, and MedPage Today. Over the last two years, Dr Gibbons has received successive research awards from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine’s (SAEM) Academy of Emergency Ultrasound (AEUS). Ryan is active within numerous national organizations as well. He founded and served as the first chair of the Emergency Ultrasound Section (EUS) of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM) and as the secretary for the EUS of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). Likewise, he is a passionate member of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (AIUM), having served as the secretary and vice chair of the Ultrasound in Medical Education community and, presently, as the secretary of the Point-of-Care Ultrasound Community as well as the 2023 Beryl Benacerraf fellow for the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.
Prior to his EM training, Ryan served on active duty in the United States Navy where he completed his transitional year internship at the Naval Medical Center Portsmouth followed by a tour on the USS NASHVILLE (LPD-13) as the medical department head and then with Fleet Aire Reconnaissance Squadron 4 (VQ-4) as the squadron flight surgeon. He is currently in the process of returning to the United States Navy reserves as an Emergency Medicine physician.
Michael Gottlieb, MD

Rush University Medical Center

Michael Gottlieb, MD is the Vice Chair of Research and Director of the Emergency Ultrasound Division at Rush University Medical Center. He is Past-Chair of the ACEP Ultrasound Section and Past-Chair of the AAEM Ultrasound Section. He has authored over 500 peer-reviewed publications and is an Editor for Academic Medicine, The Annals of Emergency Medicine, The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, The American Journal of Emergency Medicine, and Academic Emergency Medicine Education and Training, as well as the Social Media Editor for Academic Emergency Medicine. He is Past-Chair of the CORD Academy for Scholarship, Past-Chair of the SAEM Education Summit, Past-Chair of the CORD Education Committee, Past-Chair of the CORD Best Practices Subcommittee, and a nationally-recognized speaker and educator. His academic interests include medical education, ultrasound, infectious diseases, heart failure, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Lynn P. Roppolo, MD, FACEP

University of North Texas and Texas Christian University

Lynn Roppolo, MD is a graduate of the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and completed her emergency medicine residency at the George Washington University. She did an ultrasound fellowship after 15 years in the residency leadership, the same year she was promoted to full professor at the University of Texas Southwestern where she recently retired. She is currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of North Texas and Texas Christian University. She is core faculty and the Assistant Ultrasound Director at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth and employed by Integrative Emergency Services. She is also a part-time attending in the emergency department at Children's Medical Center in Plano, Texas. She is a Senior Editor for the Journal of Emergency Medicine. As a member of the SAEM Research Committee, she has been instrumental in the development of the new "Research Learning Series". Her scholarly interests include anything related to emergency ultrasound and improving our ability to manage acutely agitated patients to reduce the incidence of physical assaults on ED staff.
Youyou Duanmu, MD, MPH

Research Officer

Stanford University

Youyou Duanmu, MD MPH is an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Ultrasound Fellowship in the Stanford Emergency Department. Dr. Duanmu completed a two year ultrasound fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital and earned a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in quantitative research methods. Her research focus is in advanced point-of-care cardiac ultrasound, clinical decision rules and medical education and competency assessment. Dr. Duanmu serves as a research mentor to medical students, residents and fellows and is an educator for the Stanford emergency medicine residency research curriculum.
Joshua J. Davis, MD

Vituity, University of Kansas School of Medicine -- Wichita

Dr. Joshua Davis is an emergency physician in Wichita, KS, who teaches as a Clinical Instructor at University of Kansas School of Medicine. He is Assistant Medical Director for Ultrasound and Research with Vituity in Wichita, Kansas. He completed his residency at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, completed medical school at Thomas Jefferson University, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Delaware. His research interests are broad and include emergency medicine clinical topics along with point of care ultrasonography and medical education. He has published over 50 peer reviewed articles, given multiple national presentations, and written several book chapters.
Lawrence A. Melniker, MD, MS, MBA

New York Presbyterian Hospital
Dr. Lawrence Melniker is the Vice Chief for Quality Management in the Department of Emergency Medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital. He serves as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Melniker received his MD from SUNY Downstate Medical Center, then completed an Internal Medicine Residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine; followed by an Emergency Medicine Residency at Mount Sinai School of Medicine.
In 2004, Dr. Melniker completed a Fellowship and Master of Science in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research at the Weill Graduate School of Medical Sciences of Cornell University; and in 2017, he finished a Healthcare MBA at George Washington University School of Business.
Dr. Melniker is a founding member of the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS) and the senior methodologist for WINFOCUS – International Consensus Conference Series.
Dr. Melniker has been practicing Emergency Medicine for 30 years.
Stephanie C. DeMasi, MD

Vanderbilt University Medical Center