Consensus guidelines for perioperative point-of-care ultrasound: the devil is in the (implementation) details

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Scott J Millington. Can J Anaesth. 2021 Mar.

. 2021 Mar;68(3):285-287.

doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01868-1. Epub 2020 Nov 20.

¹ Intensive Care, The University of Ottawa/The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, ON, Canada. smillington@toh.ca.

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Canadian recommendations for training and performance in basic perioperative point-of-care ultrasound: recommendations from a consensus of Canadian anesthesiology academic centres.
Meineri M, Arellano R, Bryson G, Arzola C, Chen R, Collins P, Denault A, Desjardins G, Fayad A, Funk D, Hegazy AF, Kim H, Kruger M, Kruisselbrink R, Perlas A, Prabhakar C, Syed S, Sidhu S, Tanzola R, Van Rensburg A, Talab H, Vegas A, Bainbridge D. Meineri M, et al. Can J Anaesth. 2021 Mar;68(3):376-386. doi: 10.1007/s12630-020-01867-2. Epub 2020 Nov 24. Can J Anaesth. 2021. PMID: 33236278 English.

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