PEM POCUS at SickKids
About Us
What is Point-of-Care Ultrasound?
- Ultrasonography brought to the patient and performed by a health care provider in conjunction with the clinical examination in real time.
- Allows findings to be directly correlated with the patient’s presenting signs and symptoms.
- Allows real-time dynamic image interpretation (rather than images recorded by a sonographer and interpreted later).
- Allows goal-directed, simplified, problem-based assessments (generally qualitative and binomial; rather than quantitative and descriptive).
- Allows the provider to maintain expected workflow (time sensitive and repeatable).
- Allows images to be archived for clinical, education, research and quality assurance purposes.
- Allows for safer procedures with needle visualization and procedure mapping.
Terminology
Associated terms for POCUS include clinical ultrasound, bedside ultrasound, focused ultrasound, emergency ultrasound and limited ultrasound.
Who Uses POCUS Today?
POCUS is used by a growing number of paediatric specialitiesÂ
- Anesthesia
- Cardiology
- Critical Care Medicine
- Dermatology
- Emergency Medicine
- General Surgery
- Gynecology
- Neonatology
- Neurosurgery
- Obstetrics
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopedics
- Pediatrics
- Respirology
- Rheumatology
- Sports Medicine
- Urology
Our Team
Dr. Joel Gupta
POCUS Staff
Current Fellows
Dr. Charlene Bularan
Philippines
Dr. Keren Shahar-Nissan
Tel Aviv, Israel
Dr. Noa Kvatinsky
Haifa, Israel