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In this episode number 18 on Emergency Ultrasound, we have with us Dr. Greg Hall, Dr. Jordan

Chinkin, Dr. Paul Hannam, and Dr. Jason Fisher. Dr. Hall is an emergency physician at Brantford General Hospital and an assistant professor at McMaster University. He was the chief of the emergency department in Cambridge, Ontario for five years. He's a co-developer of the Eddy II course. He's a winner of multiple awards, including clinician of the year for his ultrasound instruction. Dr. Chankin is an emergency

physician at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center in Toronto and an assistant professor at the

University of Toronto. He's a master instructor with the Canadian Emergency Ultrasound Society

and an instructor for the Eddie and the Eddie II ultrasound courses. He's conducted and published

original research on training for ultrasound-assisted procedures.

Dr. Hannam is an emergency physician and chief of emergency services at Toronto East General Hospital and a lecture at the University of Toronto.

He's an instructor for the Eddie and the Eddy II ultrasound courses and lectures on emergency

ultrasound.

Dr. Jason Fisher is an emergency physician at Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto, where he's the

physician lead for emergency ultrasound. He's assistant professor at the University of Toronto. He completed

his emergency medicine and pediatric emergency medicine training in Oakland, California, as well as

emergency ultrasound fellowship. He's lectured and instructed physicians internationally on

ultrasound and pediatric emergency medicine and leads the emergency ultrasound

program at sick kids emergency ultrasound or bedside ultrasound or point of care ultrasound whatever

you want to call it is rapid shows real-time anatomy and gives you useful decision-making info all

characteristics that are ideal for the busy emergency doctor.

Whether you're a daily user of emergency ultrasound or have never touched an ultrasound probe,

emergency ultrasound is here to stay, and we all need not only to develop our skills in ultrasound,

but also know a little something about how to effectively and safely interpret those tiny white and black dots that make up the snowstorm we see on that screen.

Sooner or later, it'll become, or perhaps already has become, for some indications,

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