Nilam J Soni, Robert Nathanson, Mark Andreae, Rahul Khosla, Karthik Vadamalai, Karthik Kode, Jeremy S Boyd, Charles M LoPresti, Dana Resop, Zahir Basrai, Jason Williams, Brian Bales, Harald Sauthoff, Erin Wetherbee, Elizabeth K Haro, Natalie Smith, Michael J Mader, Jacqueline Pugh, Erin P Finley, Christopher K Schott
BACKGROUND: Many institutions are training clinicians in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), but few POCUS skills checklists have been developed and validated. We developed a consensus-based multispecialty POCUS skills checklist with anchoring references for basic cardiac, lung, abdominal, and vascular ultrasound, and peripheral intravenous line (PIV) insertion. METHODS: A POCUS expert panel of 14 physicians specializing in emergency, critical care, and internal/hospital medicine participated in a modified-Delphi approach to develop a basic POCUS skills checklist by group consensus...
May 12, 2022: The ultrasound journal