← All decks
Anaesthesiology
Practical Applications Getting the Best Out of Your Ultrasound Machine
Built from Practical Ultrasound in Anesthesia
What’s inside
5 sections · 51 slides
Overview
- Roadmap
Applications in daily practice
Eight ways ultrasound supports the anaesthesia and critical care clinician
- Ultrasound across daily practice
- Perioperative cardiopulmonary assessment
- Ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia
- Neuraxial ultrasound assessment
- Ultrasound for vascular access
- Ultrasound for the airway
- Echocardiography in the operating room
- Point-of-care ultrasound protocols
- Lung ultrasound
- Pain management procedures
- Ultrasound's role is still growing
Getting the best out of the machine
Training, settings, technique, and ways to see the needle more clearly
- Training and certification
- Know your machine's settings
- Doppler and colour flow imaging
- Routine maintenance
- Patient positioning
- Operator ergonomics
- Why ergonomics matter
- Probe manoeuvres
- Real-time guidance
- Enhancing needle visualisation
- Five ways to improve needle visibility
- Image post-processing
- Temporal compounding of cardiac ultrasound frames
- Modifying the needle
- Onvision needle tip tracking technology
- Changing image formation
- Beam steering: original, steered, and fused needle views
- Motion-based analysis
- Machine learning for needle enhancement
- Artificial intelligence in ultrasound
- Documentation and reporting
- Infection control
- Share knowledge and ask for help
- Putting the machine to work
What limits ultrasound use
Seven barriers to wider adoption in clinical practice
- Barriers to wider use
- Training and education gaps
- Equipment availability and cost
- Pre-procedure ultrasound as a workaround
- Workflow and time constraints
- Lack of standardisation
- Technological limitations
- Resistance to change
- Regulatory and legal considerations
- Overcoming the barriers
Takeaways
What to remember about using ultrasound well
- The overall path to better use
- Core messages
- References
- References (continued)
- Practical Ultrasound in Anesthesia for Critical Care and Pain Management