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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Position Statements from the Society of Hospital Medicine, Book 2

Point-of-Care Ultrasound: Position Statements from the Society of Hospital Medicine, Book 2

Pocus Group, Society of Hospital Medicin

Paperback

Series: Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Position Statements, Book 2

Health General

ISBN10: 170405382X
ISBN13: 9781704053820
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 4 2019
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.26 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Ultrasound guidance is used increasingly to perform the following 6 bedside procedures that are core competencies of hospitalists: abdominal paracentesis, arterial catheter placement, arthrocentesis, central venous catheter placement, lumbar puncture, and thoracentesis. Yet, most hospitalists have not been certified to perform these procedures, whether using ultrasound guidance or not, by specialty boards or other institutions extramural to their own hospitals. Instead, hospital privileging committees often ask hospitalist group leaders to make ad hoc intramural certification assessments as part of credentialing. Given variation in training and experience, such assessments are not straightforward sign offs. We thus convened a panel of experts to conduct a systematic review to provide recommendations for credentialing hospitalist physicians in ultrasound guidance of these 6 bedside procedures. Pathways for initial and ongoing credentialing are proposed. A guiding principle of both is that certification assessments for basic competence are best made through direct observation of performance on actual patients.

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