Lesson 1Health questions for POCUS in hard breathing and chest pain (like heart failure, fluid around heart, big air leak)This part sets main health questions for heart and lung POCUS in breathing trouble and chest pain, linking signs to fixable problems like heart failure, fluid around heart, and air leak to guide quick bedside choices.
Making clear the main breathing complaintChecking for heart failure and low flowRuling out big fluid around heartFinding tight or big air leakPutting life dangers first vs small findingsLesson 2Lung scan areas and views: front, side, back; regular scan wayThis part details standard lung scan areas and views, including front, side, and back parts, and teaches a regular, repeatable scan order that cuts missed problems in sick breathing patients.
Setting front lung scan areasSetting side lung scan areasSetting back lung scan areasStandard scan order for breathing troubleChanging areas for patients who can't walkLesson 3Standard heart views for focused checks: side long, side short, tip four-room, under chest (under rib)This part outlines standard heart views for focused checks, including side long and short, tip four-room, and under chest views, with focus on probe spots, direction, and common mistakes in breathing trouble patients.
Side long view taking stepsSide short view at many levelsTip four-room view improvingUnder chest heart and big vein checkCommon false images and view mistakesLesson 4Patient talking and record templates for heart and lung POCUS findingsThis part focuses on clear patient talking about POCUS goal and results, shared choices, and structured record templates that catch key heart and lung findings, limits, and next steps.
Explaining POCUS goal to patientsTalking early vs final resultsNoting key heart POCUS partsNoting key lung POCUS partsStating limits and next plansLesson 5Health choice paths: how specific POCUS findings change tests, treatment (water pills, blood thinners), place, and need for quick moveThis part shows how specific heart and lung POCUS findings change test choices, guide treatments like water pills or blood thinners, affect place decisions, and spot patients needing quick move or higher care.
POCUS-guided test picksChanging water pills using lung linesUsing right heart findings to guide blood thinnersPlace choices from bedside POCUSRules for quick move or higher careLesson 6Limits of focused heart and lung POCUS: image quality factors, telling old vs new findings, worker mistakes, and when to get full heart scan/CT/lung adviceThis part reviews tech and meaning limits of focused heart and lung POCUS, including body size, false images, old vs new changes, worker bias, and clear points for going to full heart scan, CT, or expert advice.
Patient and body size image challengesFalse images that look like real problemsTelling old from new findingsCommon worker and meaning mistakesWhen to get full heart scan or CTStarts for heart or lung expert adviceLesson 7Step-by-step scan way: patient place, probe spot, image planes, depth and gain changes for heart and lung viewsThis part gives step-by-step guide for focused heart and lung scanning, including patient place, probe spot, image planes, depth and gain improving, and fix ways to better get views in breathing trouble patients.
Best place for breathing trouble patientsProbe direction and hand comfortPicking and lining image planesChanging depth, gain, and focusFixing poor sound windowsKeeping patient comfort during scansLesson 8Probe pick and reason for focused heart and lung checksThis part reviews probe choices for focused heart and lung checks, comparing phased array, curved, and straight tools, and explains how frequency, size, and depth reach affect image quality and health question pick.
Phased array probe signsCurved probe good points and limitsStraight probe uses in lung checkBalancing frequency and depth reachMatching probe to health questionLesson 9Meaning of focused heart findings: left heart pump work guesses, right heart big size, fluid around heart and squeeze signs, valve big problemsThis part explains how to guess left heart pump work, spot right heart big size and strain, find fluid around heart and squeeze signs, and check for big valve problems using focused heart views at bedside.
Eye guess of left heart pump workChecking right heart size and wall betweenFinding fluid around heart and squeezeChecking big valve problemsMixing heart POCUS with vital signsLesson 10Meaning of lung findings: A-lines, B-lines (all over vs one spot), lung slide, solid parts with air lines, fluid around lungThis part covers spotting normal A-lines, meaning B-lines as all over or one spot, checking lung slide, finding solid parts with air lines, and describing fluid around lungs in sudden breathing trouble.
Spotting normal A-line lung patternTelling one spot vs all over B-linesChecking lung slide and lung lineFinding solid parts and air linesDescribing fluid around lung on POCUS
