POCUS has been successfully used in in the Emergency Department and ICU for a wide range of indications. It can be used for diagnosing a critical condition or monitoring the response to treatment. Therefore, POCUS is gaining popularity across many different medical specialties and is becoming part of the modern physicians clinical armamentarium. Here we present tips and tricks and more in depth background for performing POCUS of the various organs. This site provides teaching resources that can be used by physicians, medical educators in the classroom, and by trainees for self-study.
Chief-editors
Pieter Roel Tuinman, MD, PhD, intensivist-epidemiologist
David van Westerloo, MD, PhD, intensivist
Editors:
Carlos Elzo Kraemer, MD, intensivist
Jorge Lopez Matta, MD, intensivist
Paul Wijnandts, MD, intensivist
Jasper Smit, MD, PhD student
Mark Haaksma, MD, PhD student
Micah Heldeweg, MD, PhD student
Annemijn Jonkman, technical physician, PhD student
Heder de Vries, MD, PhD student
Contact
Department of Intensive Care Medicine
Amsterdam University Medical Centres, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Room ZH - 7D-166
De Boelelaan 1117
1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
prtuinman@hotmail.com
Department of Intensive Care Medicine
Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC)
