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AIUM Resources

• AIUM Official Statement: Guidelines for Cleaning and Preparing External- and Internal-Use Ultrasound Transducers and Equipment Between Patients as well as Safe Handling and Use of Ultrasound Coupling Gel. Updated resource includes a section specifically on COVID-19. (Revised: 3/27/2020)


• Quick Guide on COVID-19 Protections — Patient and Ultrasound Provider Protection


• Quick Guide on COVID-19 Protections — Ultrasound Transducers, Equipment, and Gel


• Is there a role for lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic? a clinical letter in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM)


• Proposal for international standardization of the use of lung ultrasound for COVID-19 patients; a simple, quantitative, reproducible method a technical innovation in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM)


• Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM) articles on Lung Ultrasound

American Medical Association (AMA)

• Special coding advice during COVID-19 public health emergency


• CPT reporting for COVID-19 Testing


• CMS payment policies & regulatory flexibilities during COVID-19 emergency

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• COVID-19 Information Center


• Latest Updates


• How to Prepare


• Information for Healthcare Professionals


• Strategies to Optimize the Supply of PPE and Equipment

Cleaning & Safety

• Approved Disinfectants for COVID-19 from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)


• How to perform a safe ultrasound examination and clean equipment in the context of COVID-19 from the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology (WFUMB)

Echocardiography

• ASE Statement on Protection of Patients and Echocardiography Service
  Providers During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak
  


• Researchers use ultrasound technique to accurately localize cardiac arrhythmias

Journal Articles
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM) Articles

• A clinical letter: Is there a role for lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic?


• A technical innovation: Proposal for international standardization of the use of lung ultrasound for COVID-19 patients; a simple, quantitative, reproducible method


• JUM articles on Lung Ultrasound

Other Journal Articles

• COVID-19: Novel Coronavirus Content Free to Access: Articles from Wiley Online Library


• The Latest from RSNA journals on COVID-19


• International evidence-based recommendations for point-of-care lung ultrasound


• Impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) to reduce COVID19 mortality and healthcare demand

Lung & POCUS Ultrasound

• Yale Tung Chen, MD, PhD, and Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM) author was recently diagnosed with COVID-19 & is sharing his experience & daily POCUS scans on Twitter. Follow his thread at #mycoviddiary


• POCUS in COVID-19 on the Ultrasound G.E.L Podcast


• POCUS for Covid19 presentation by Joseph Minardi, MD


• Combating COVID-19 Together: This webinar is designed to assist healthcare professionals assess their preparedness in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.


• Emergency Resources: COVID-19 from the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM)


• Critical Care for Non-ICU Clinicians Society of Critical Care Medicine's (SCCM) complimentary online training


• COVID-19 Virtual Reality Technology video


• Lung Ultrasound Modules from Calgary Internal Medicine Ultrasound


• A message from the World Interactive Network Focused On Critical UltraSound (WINFOCUS): Giovanni Volpicelli, WINFOCUS board member, discusses ultrasound in diagnosis, monitoring and prognosis of COVID-19


• Lung Ultrasound in Covid-19 Pandemic from WINFOCUS


• POCUS Application in COVID-19 from IMRESPDX created by Dr. Kevin Piro

Obstetrics

• COVID-19 Resources from the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM)


• How to perform lung ultrasound in pregnant women with suspected COVID-19 infection from the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG)


• COVID-19 FAQs for Obstetrician–Gynecologists, Gynecology from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)


• PAN COVID: an international registry of Pregnancy And Neonatal outcomes of COVID from the International Society of Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology (ISUOG)

Online Learning Tools

• To ensure that ultrasound professionals can continue with their learning opportunities through this COVID-19 pandemic, the Society of Diagnostic Medical Sonography (SDMS) is offering complimentary access to over 100 SDMS Registry Review Series videos.

Pediatrics

• X-ray with Ultrasound Can Be Used to Manage Pneumonia in Children from Diagnostic Imaging


• guidance on infants born to mothers with suspected or confirmed COVID-19 from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

Other

• Handbook of COVID-19 Prevention and Treatment from The First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine


• Lessons From the Front Lines - COVID 19: A webinar from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)


• International Webinar on Ultrasound Applications for the COVID-19 Pandemics: Sharing China's Ultrasound Experience to Combat COVID-19 with the World


• ECRI Preparedness Center