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Soft Tissue Ultrasound POCUS Course

Refine your soft tissue POCUS skills to quickly assess infections and identify abscesses, enhancing your diagnostic abilities in urgent, bedside evaluations.
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6 lessons

Topics include cellulitis-abscess, foreign bodies, infections, and more.

35 quiz questions

Test your knowledge with our
pre-tests and exams.

1+ video hours

Watch over one hour of video content and clinical case discussions.

Earn 4 CME

Reflect on our prompts
to earn up to 4 CME credits.
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A Step-by-Step Approach to Soft Tissue Ultrasound

Using the IAIM method, you’ll master each phase of the scan from start to finish. By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

Indications

  • List the clinical indications for performing the soft tissue POCUS examinations.

Acquisition

  • Discuss scanning essentials and image optimization
  • Identify the correct transducer
  • Demonstrate the soft tissue POCUS examination
  • Identify key normal sonographic findings 

Interpretation

  • Identify the sonographic findings of a soft tissue abscess
  • Identify the sonographic findings of cellulitis
  • Compare and contrast the sonographic findings of cellulitis vs. non-infectious soft tissue edema
  • Identify sonographic criteria for high-risk soft tissue infections
  • Compare and contrast structures that could be confused with a soft tissue abscess

Medical Decision-Making

  • Discuss the role of the soft tissue POCUS examination in the evaluation of the patient with a suspected soft tissue infection
  • Discuss pearls and pitfalls of the soft tissue POCUS examination
  • Discuss soft tissue POCUS examination limitations

What's Inside the Course

Meet Your Instructors

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Dr. Bob Jones

DO, FACEP

Years of POCUS Experience

Residency POCUS programs founded

Articles and chapters written
Dr. Jones is an emergency physician with over 30 years of POCUS experience, currently teaching at Case Western Reserve University and MetroHealth in Cleveland, Ohio.

He founded multiple residency POCUS programs, created the Ohio ACEP ultrasound course, and served as ACEP Ultrasound Section Chair.

Dr. Jones lectures worldwide, has written numerous POCUS articles and chapters, co-chairs system-wide POCUS at MetroHealth, and leads the living anatomy/ultrasound program for pre-clerkship students.

Learning from Dr. Jones means you’ll gain practical, cutting-edge expertise from one of the field’s true pioneers.

Join POCUS Focused today and master
soft tissue ultrasound!