Author Archives: Jason Nomura

About Jason Nomura

Jason T. Nomura MD RDMS FACP FAAEM is a Board Certified Physician in Emergency Medicine and Internal Medicine who specializes in Point of Care Ultrasound. He is the author of this blog, see "About Author".

Single Operator Sterile Sheathing of an Ultrasound Probe for an Ultrasound Guided Procedure

During the care of critically ill patients either in the Emergency Department or other settings can involve the placement of Central Venous Catheters.  The literature supports the use of Ultrasound Guidance to prevent mechanical complications and increase success rates.  However, … Continue reading

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Tips and Tricks for Placement Confirmation of IJ CVCs

This is a short blurb that my colleagues and I wrote for the ACEP US Section Newsletter, January 2011 edition. American College of Emergency Physicians Emergency Ultrasound Section Newsletter Tips and Tricks Section January 2011 Christiana Care Health System Emergency … Continue reading

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US Educational Video: The Ski Lift

My colleagues and I published an article in Academic Emergency Medicine, the journal for the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, about something we termed the Ski Lift.  This is a method to help assist in viewing the needle during in-plane … Continue reading

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Ultrasound Case Review #7 12-2010

There has been some delay in producing a new case review, but this has been a one man show and it has been a busy fall.  However, here is a case review of some US guided Central Venous Cannulation with … Continue reading

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Sidetracked…

Sorry for the long delay between blog posts, but there have been some major deadlines to meet. The American College of Emergency Physicians Scientific Assembly started off the delay. This was then followed by attending ACEP’s Emergency Medicine Basic Research … Continue reading

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New Ultrasound Technology, is it always helpful?

I am recently back from the American College of Emergency Physician’s annual Scientific Assembly conference, as you may have noted from the Twitterfeed. While there, as with most conferences, there was a vendor fair with all the latest new and … Continue reading

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Ultrasound Case Review #6 09-2010

I recently gave a lecture to the EM residents at my hospital regarding the EFAST exam.  This covered common errors, some anatomy, and some subtle findings.  We reviewed those cases with a laser pointer that was passed from person to … Continue reading

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How timed Tweets can distract from your message.

There are several software options for people to use to interact with Twitter and manage their posts.  Some of the more popular interfaces allow you to create Tweets and have time flagged for a delayed or a timed post.  While … Continue reading

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All that glitters is not gold, or how NEJM got it wrong

The New England Journal of Medicine is a well known medical journal and viewed as a premiere source of medical information and research presentations. Awhile ago they added a section called “Videos in Clinical Medicine” which is usually a video … Continue reading

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