CRUS Retention Program

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Quarterly Video Chat with Critical Care US Mentor

Hallmark of the CRUS Retention program, every 3 months you will have the opportunity to meet with one of our Critical Care US mentors. Using Google Hangouts (video chat + screen sharing), this will be an opportunity to talk 'all things ultrasound'. Examples include image acquisition, image interpretation, specific cases and institutional politics. We'll ask you to prepare topics you'd like to discuss and have a few of your scans ready before each session.

During the months of November 2017, February 2018, May 2018, and August 2018,  we will gather mentor availability and will contact you to book a session. (Atul: here is link to booking page for example)

Portfolio and Quality/Assurance

Maintaining a portfolio is a key component to becoming competent in Critical Care Ultrasound. As per a Canadian Critical Care Ultrasound consensus meeting (Arntfield et al., 2014), to ensure a minimum level of competency, learners are recommended to complete the following number of exams for core applications:

  • Critical Care Echocardiography - 30 studies  
  • Lung and Pleural Ultrasound - 20 studies
  • Guidance of Vascular Access - 10 studies
  • Detection of Abdominal Free Fluid - 10 studies. 

Depending on local factors the following optional applications maybe also be applicable:

  • Renal Ultrasound - 25 studies
  • Abdominal Aorta - 25 studies
  • Diagnosis of Venous Thrombosis - 25 studies

We suggest all learners complete the above applicable studies and record them to Qpath (if at LHSC or other institution with Qpath) or another logging solution..

POCUS Textbook and Extended Flipped Classroom

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