Point of Care Ultrasound for Emergency Medicine and Resuscitation

Dr Paul Atkinson is Professor in Emergency Medicine at Dalhousie University and Saint John Regional Hospital, New Brunswick, Canada. He is the current chair of the departmental research committee. Paul is also a senior editor for CJEM, Chief Medical Officer for WorkSafeNB, and is currently VP for ultrasound research for the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). He is co-director of the Emergency Critical Care Ultrasound (ECCU) course.His international training included Queen's University Belfast, Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, and Cambridge University Hospitals in the UK. He has over 80 peer reviewed publications, as well as being lead editor on two textbooks. Awards include the inaugural "Best in Class" award from Dalhousie University in 2012, andthe Canadian national Grant Innes Award for Emergency Medicine research in 2014. Current research interests include medical education, ultrasound, trauma systems and prevention, as well as quality in emergency medicine. Paul enjoys cycling and hiking in the wide-open spaces of our great country. Dr Justin Bowra is an emergency physician and emergency ultrasound tragic at the Royal North Shore Hospital in Sydney. He has been performing bedside USsince 1999. He is the lead author of Emergency Ultrasound Made Easy (2nd ed), the ACEM representative on the ultrasound interest group of the International Federation of EmergencyMedicine, a member of the ACEM ultrasound subcommittee, a past chair of the CCPU Board of the Australasian Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, and the CEO of My Emergency Dr. Hobbies include writing spectacularly unsuccessful film scripts and children's books. Professor Tim Harris was born in the UK but has spent around half his life overseas. He trained in Emergency Medicine and Intensive care medicine in Australia, and in pre-hospital Medicine in Australia and the UK. He has worked in 43 hospitals in 11 countries and mixed training with travel for volunteer work in Africa, India and Samoa. Tim has worked at Barts Health for 14 years and was appointed Professor Emergency Medicine at QMUL and BH in 2012. In 2018 he moved to Hamad General Hospital, Doha. He divides his academic time between teaching and research. His main interests are point of care testing, resuscitation, ultrasound, and education. His research time is focussed facilitating and recruiting to large multicentre studies. He has published around 70 papers. His current main focus is leading the QMUL Emergency & Resuscitation MSc. He supervises the academic trainees and academic students in their research programs and runs the undergraduate and some of the post-graduate teaching programs for QMUL. He provides clinical governance to East Anglia Air Ambulance. This is why he kite-surfs and sails so badly. Bob Jarman was raised in Yorkshire, trained in the north east of England and now practices as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine based at the Great North Trauma and Emergency Centre, Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has been instrumental in establishing education and training programmes in point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) in the UK and internationally. He is lead for a successful Masters programme in PoCUS based at Teesside University. Middlesbrough, UK, where he is also a Visiting Professor. He is proud to be a patron for Northumbria Blood Bikes - a charitable organisation established by local volunteers to deliver essential blood and urgent medical supplies in northeast England. Bob has previously chaired the UK Royal College of Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Subcommittee, National PoCUS Committee of the British Medical Ultrasound Society and is the outgoing chair of the Emergency Ultrasound Specialty Interest Group of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM). He has published in peer-reviewed journals and was the lead author for the international IFEM Ultrasound Curriculum Guidance. Bob's special interest is in PoCUS education and training and PoCUS in the high-acuity sick and injured patient, especially chest, echocardiography and shock protocols. He has also been busy training clinicians working in austere and prehospital environments. Dr David Lewis, Associate Professor with the Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University, is a fulltime Emergency Physician in Saint John, New Brunswick. His undergraduate medical training was at the Royal and Ancient Hospital of St Bartholomew's Medical School, London. His postgraduate Emergency Medicine training was centered at Cambridge University and the East of England. He completed a postgraduate diploma in Sports and Exercise medicine at Bath University, UK. His areas of special interest include Point-of-care ultrasound, sports medicine, medical informatics and education. He is the current director of EM PoCUS, chief website editor (www.sjrhem.ca) and informatics lead at the Saint John Regional Hospital and PoCUS lead at Dalhousie Medicine New Brunswick. He is the immediate past chair of the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians national PoCUS committee and is involved in the development of PoCUS education both nationally (Canadian Point of Care Ultrasound Society) and internationally (International Federation of Emergency Medicine PoCUS Committee and ECCU Course - www.EmergencyUltrasound.ca).

1: Paul Atkinson and Bob Jarman; with Tim Harris, Rip Gangahar, David Lewis, Justin Bowra, and Hein Lamprecht: Introduction and clinical scenarios
2: Tim Harris, Matthew Wong, James French, Sharon Kay, and Paul Atkinson: The Heart and Resuscitation
3: Justin Bowra, Osama Loubani, Paul Atkinson: The Chest
4: Justin Bowra, Osama Loubani, Paul Atkinson: The Abdomen
5: Ryan Henneberry, Chris Cox, Beatrice Hoffman, Paul Atkinson: Early Pregnancy and Pelvic Ultrasound
6: Justin Bowra, Osama Loubani, Paul Atkinson: Vascular Ultrasound
7: David Lewis: Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
8: Michael Rubin, Brandon Ritcey, Michael Y. Woo: Small Parts Ultrasound
9: Bob Jarman, Beatrice Hoffmann, Miteb Al-Githami, John Hardin, Elena Skoromovsky, Stuart Durham, David Lewis, Paul Atkinson, Justin Bowra: Ultrasound and procedures
10: Paul Olszynski, Melanie Stander, Tim Harris, Mark Tutschka, Paul Atkinson: Education and Simulation in Point of Care Ultrasound
11: Jason Fischer and Lianne McLean: Pediatric Ultrasound
12: Nils Petter Oveland and Jim Connolly: Pre-Hospital Point-of-Care Ultrasound