Browsing by Author "Goffi, Alberto"

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    Canadian Recommendations for Critical Care Ultrasound Training and Competency
    (2014-01-01) Arntfield, Robert T; Millington, Scott J; Ainsworth, Craig D; Arora, Rakesh C; Boyd, John; Finlayson, Gordon; Gallagher, William; Gebhardt, Colin; Goffi, Alberto; Hockmann, Edgar; Kirkpatrick, Andrew W; McDermid, Robert C; Waechter, Jason; Wong, Natalie; Zavalkoff, Samara; Beaulieu, Yanick
    OBJECTIVE: To achieve national consensus on standards of training, quality assurance and maintenance of competence for critical care ultrasound for intensivists and critical care trainees in Canada using recently published international training statements.DATA SOURCES: Existing internationally endorsed guidelines and expert opinion.DATA SYNTHESIS: In November 2013, a day-long consensus meeting was held with 15 Canadian experts in critical care ultrasound in which essential topics relevant to training ultrasound were discussed.CONCLUSIONS: Consensus was achieved to direct training curriculum, oversight, quality assurance and maintenance of competence for critical care ultrasound. In providing the first national guideline of its kind, these Canadian recommendations may also serve as a model of critical care ultrasound dissemination for other countries.
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    Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound for COVID-19 (PoCUS4COVID): international expert consensus
    (2020-12-24) Hussain, Arif; Via, Gabriele; Melniker, Lawrence; Goffi, Alberto; Tavazzi, Guido; Neri, Luca; Villen, Tomas; Hoppmann, Richard; Mojoli, Francesco; Noble, Vicki; Zieleskiewicz, Laurent; Blanco, Pablo; Ma, Irene W Y; Wahab, Mahathar A; Alsaawi, Abdulmohsen; Al Salamah, Majid; Balik, Martin; Barca, Diego; Bendjelid, Karim; Bouhemad, Belaid; Bravo-Figueroa, Pablo; Breitkreutz, Raoul; Calderon, Juan; Connolly, Jim; Copetti, Roberto; Corradi, Francesco; Dean, Anthony J; Denault, André; Govil, Deepak; Graci, Carmela; Ha, Young-Rock; Hurtado, Laura; Kameda, Toru; Lanspa, Michael; Laursen, Christian B; Lee, Francis; Liu, Rachel; Meineri, Massimiliano; Montorfano, Miguel; Nazerian, Peiman; Nelson, Bret P; Neskovic, Aleksandar N; Nogue, Ramon; Osman, Adi; Pazeli, José; Pereira-Junior, Elmo; Petrovic, Tomislav; Pivetta, Emanuele; Poelaert, Jan; Price, Susanna; Prosen, Gregor; Rodriguez, Shalim; Rola, Philippe; Royse, Colin; Chen, Yale T; Wells, Mike; Wong, Adrian; Xiaoting, Wang; Zhen, Wang; Arabi, Yaseen
    Abstract COVID-19 has caused great devastation in the past year. Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) including lung ultrasound (LUS) and focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) as a clinical adjunct has played a significant role in triaging, diagnosis and medical management of COVID-19 patients. The expert panel from 27 countries and 6 continents with considerable experience of direct application of PoCUS on COVID-19 patients presents evidence-based consensus using GRADE methodology for the quality of evidence and an expedited, modified-Delphi process for the strength of expert consensus. The use of ultrasound is suggested in many clinical situations related to respiratory, cardiovascular and thromboembolic aspects of COVID-19, comparing well with other imaging modalities. The limitations due to insufficient data are highlighted as opportunities for future research.