EFSUMB Minimum Training Requirements for Rheumatologists Performing Musculoskeletal Ultrasound

An electronic logbook for rheumatologists performing musculoskeletal ultrasound.

SIR, The use of musculoskeletal ultrasound by rheumatologists is an exciting and expanding area of practice. It is a common practice for trainees in other medical and surgical specialities to keep a logbook of procedures (such as gastroscopies or bronchoscopies), to be reviewed as part of the annual appraisal/record of in-training assessment (RITA) process. A logbook listing the number and type...

Appendix 13: Intensive care ultrasound - minimum training requirements for the practice of medical ultrasound in Europe.

Evaluation of musculoskeletal symptoms among physicians performing ultrasound

AIM OF THE STUDY Owing to its wide availability, relatively low cost and lack of negative effect on the patient, ultrasound has become the most commonly and readily used imaging modality. However, scanning for increasingly long periods of time on a given day and in a given week tends to negatively affect sonographers' health, primarily resulting with the overuse of the musculoskeletal system, a...

EFSUMB Recommendations and Guidelines for Gastrointestinal Ultrasound.

In October 2014 the European Federation of Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology formed a Gastrointestinal Ultrasound (GIUS) task force group to promote the use of GIUS in a clinical setting. One of the main objectives of the task force group was to develop clinical recommendations and guidelines for the use of GIUS under the auspices of EFSUMB. The first part, gives an overview of t...

Interobserver reliability of rheumatologists performing musculoskeletal ultrasonography: results from a EULAR "Train the trainers" course.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the interobserver reliability among 14 experts in musculoskeletal ultrasonography (US) and to determine the overall agreement about the US results compared with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which served as the imaging "gold standard". METHODS The clinically dominant joint regions (shoulder, knee, ankle/toe, wrist/finger) of four patients with inflammatory rheumatic ...