Erratum to: 12th WINFOCUS world congress on ultrasound in emergency and critical care

Abstracts from the 13th WINFOCUS World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency & Critical Care

s from the 13th WINFOCUS World Congress on Ultrasound in Emergency & Critical Care Rosario, Argentina. 27–30 September 2017 Published: 21 December 2017 © The Author(s) 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any ...

Ultrasound-guided venous cannulation in a critical care unit Punção venosa guiada por ultra-som em unidade de terapia intensiva

In the intensive care setting, ultrasound guided venous cannulation has now become an essential procedure for critically ill patients, however it has risks inherent to its insertion as well as permanence. To reduce risks related to insertion, the applicability of ultrasonography to aid insertion of a central and peripheral venous catheter will be discussed. This is a technology available in our...

Echocardiography practice, training and accreditation in the intensive care: document for the World Interactive Network Focused on Critical Ultrasound (WINFOCUS)

Echocardiography is increasingly used in the management of the critically ill patient as a non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring tool. Whilst in few countries specialized national training schemes for intensive care unit (ICU) echocardiography have been developed, specific guidelines for ICU physicians wishing to incorporate echocardiography into their clinical practice are lacking. Further, e...

12th WINFOCUS world congress on ultrasound in emergency and critical care

TABLE OF CONTENTS A1 Point-of-care ultrasound examination of cervical spine in emergency departmentYahya Acar, Onur Tezel, Necati SalmanA2 A new technique in verifying the placement of a nasogastric tube: obtaining the longitudinal view of nasogastric tube in addition to transverse view with ultrasoundYahya Acar, Necati Salman, Onur Tezel, Erdem CevikA3 Pseudoaneurysm of the femoral artery afte...

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