Point‐of‐Care Ultrasound for Hospitalists: A Position Statement of the Society of Hospital Medicine
Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Many hospitalists incorporate point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) into their daily practice to answer specific diagnostic questions or to guide performance of invasive bedside procedures. However, standards for hospitalists in POCUS training and assessment are not yet established. Most internal medicine residency training programs, the major pipeline for incoming hospitalists, have only recently begun to incorporate POCUS in their curricula. The purpose of this document is to inform a broad audience on what POCUS is and how hospitalists are using it. This document is intended to provide guidance for the hospitalists who use POCUS and administrators who oversee its use. We discuss POCUS 1) applications, 2) training, 3) assessments, and 4) program management. Practicing hospitalists must continue to collaborate with their local credentialing bodies to outline requirements for POCUS use. Hospitalists should be integrally involved in decision-making processes surrounding POCUS program management.
Source: Journal of Hospital Medicine
DOI: 10.12788/jhm.3079
Authors: Nilam J. Soni, Daniel Schnobrich, Benji K. Mathews, David M. Tierney, Trevor P. Jensen, Ria Dancel, Joel Cho, Renee K. Dversdal, Gregory Mints, Anjali Bhagra, Kreegan Reierson, Linda M. Kurian, Gigi Y Liu, Carolina Candotti, Brandon Boesch, Charles M. LoPresti, Joshua Lenchus, Tanping Wong, Gordon Johnson, Anna M. Maw, Ricardo Franco‐Sadud, Brian P. Lucas
Institutions: The University of Texas at San Antonio Health Science Center, South Texas Veterans Health Care System, University of Minnesota, Regions Hospital, HealthPartners, Abbott Northwestern Hospital, University of California, San Francisco, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center, Oregon Health & Science University, Weill Cornell Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Hofstra University, Donald & Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of California, Davis, Alameda Health System, Highland Hospital, Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, University of Miami, Legacy Health, University of Colorado Anschutz, University of Central Florida, Dartmouth College, White River Junction VA Medical Center, Dartmouth Health
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2906864020