Critical Care and Trauma - Physician Innovator: Ultrasound, AI and beyond. CEO of Deep Breathe AI.
London, Ontario, Canada
Joined April 2011
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Robert Arntfield retweeted
(1/x) Performing ultrasound in zero gravity is harder than in the ICU...
Here's what we learned from studying AI ultrasound in zero gravity trying to detect celestial dust related lung injury 🌙🚀
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Made possible by funding from @csa_asc
The @westernsono Critical Care Ultrasound fellowship has openings starting in the new year. Do you want to join the wall of fame of those who have graduated from our elite training in resus POCUS and TEE?
westernsono.ca/learn/critica…
Interested in coming to Canada and doing a critical care ultrasound fellowship @westernsono ? We would love to have you.
Shoot me a DM and we can chat more!
Highlights:
- 6 months - 1 year (preferred 1 yr)
- any training background invited to apply
- supervised by @arntfield @john_basmaji and myself
- tons of resus / critical care TEE exposure
- ++ research opportunities (including the ability to focus this as a research fellowship) --> we are running observational + RCTs in ultrasound
I completed this fellowship a while ago and can attest first hand how great it is (over 25 graduated fellows over the past decade). We would love to have you.
Pinging some previous fellows too in case they want to highlight their experience: @KiranRikhraj @katiewiskar @HansClausdorff @DCBrotherston @LintnerRivera @msattin4
#medtwitter #foamed #pocus
THIS all day long.
@KiranRikhraj has spent 9 months with us and will be giving her experience and perspective to the world for free - stay tuned for more great stuff from her like this.
While nearing the end of the incredible Critical Care US fellowship run by @arntfield, I was inspired to create my first ever screencast, demonstrating the power of echo hemodynamics. Please give it a watch: youtube.com/watch?v=uHPG2XtD…
#POCUS #hemodynamics #CardioTwitter #echofirst
Robert Arntfield retweeted
If there is one #medtech team in the #ultrasound space to follow in 2024, its @DeepBreatheInc
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@DeepBreatheInc is using machine learning to diagnose pulmonary pathology in real time at the bedside!
Thankful to collaborate and research with such a great team!
@derwuk @arntfield @westernsono #pocus #innovation #medtwitter
As an AI solutions provider in a specialized area of lung ultrasound, it can be a challenge to convey the scale and reach of the problems our team is solving. Our latest video invites you to better understand how we are transforming respiratory imaging! #medtech #ai #ultrasound
Deep Breathe Secures Funding to Advance AI-powered Lung Ultrasound Technology prn.to/3JR042w
Short + direct summary of our take on the value of TEE in contemporary critical care practice. Give it a read...if only for the hyperbolic opening line : )
Should critical care TEE become a core diagnostic skill for intensivists? Check out our editorial here: authors.elsevier.com/c/1gYh-…
@journal_CHEST Thanks to @arntfield & Craig Ainsworth. #foamed #pocus #foamus
Robert Arntfield retweeted
After a brief hiatus, the New Zealand Resuscitative Ultrasound Course will be back in 2023. It will be held Feb 23-24th in Wellington under the guidance of international 🇨🇦 ultrasound superstar, @arntfield
More info including registration details here: nzrus.wellingtonicu.com
Robert Arntfield retweeted
Rich countries in the Northern hemisphere are likely at peak vaccine-immunisation. We might get better drugs, but more effective vaccines are unlikely in the short term. It's spring and we're facing a relatively 'mild' variant. Either we resume 'normal' now, or we don't, ever.
Ultrasound = GPS for the intensivist.
A series of IN the trenches, DOWN & dirty, TRULY point-of-care studies in a polytrauma:
20s👱♂️ MVC ➕FAST, splenectomy overnight. Panscan: SDH, SAH, R PTX
AM team arrives. Receiving MTP🩸 Few minutes for a quick #TEE before being wheeled down for repeat CT head
Robert Arntfield retweeted
LVOT obstruction: sneaky, common, potentially deadly BUT very POCUSable! Check out our video @westernsono on the how to for assessing LVOTO! Thanks to @arntfield for guidance in development and @ross_prager for a beauty dagger waveform in one of our cases youtu.be/s7oLwQGy8B0
Robert Arntfield retweeted
I am really concerned with how much we have undersold the amazing efficacy of COVID vaccines in Canada. 1/
Lung ultrasound via TEE:
may sound like a #POCUS party trick, however in our routine ICU use we find
-offers crucial answers not available on routine LUS
-easy add-on to critical care TEE for 1-stop shop for cardio/pulm failure
-++ useful at lung bases
link.springer.com/article/10…
"Canada’s per-capita rates of covid-19 are now higher than the UK and US"
Important and highly readable piece for my medical and non-medical Canadian friends and colleagues.
Watch out for the maple syrup pun buried in there.
@docpgb
"The attention on Canada and its intensive care units is because we have all the variants, too few vaccines, and excessive fatigue" @docpgb, a Canadian ICU doctor, on Canada's response to covid-19 ow.ly/TUvK50EsQwo
ICU physician here.
This week I
-treated dozens with COVID
-saw our ICU add 25% capacity
-planned for worst case scenario (triage)
Despite this, I agree with the masses that the new outdoor ON restrictions are:
-unscientific
-antithetical to wellness on a population level
First ever (?) University-created/sponsored CME program for POCUS from @SchulichMedDent for lung ultrasound. Get your CME and certificate of completion and eventual live training option as well...
wpe.uwo.ca/search/publicCour…
Robert Arntfield retweeted
Hospitals have been full since I started medical training in 2004.
Out of 33 OECD countries, Canada comes in 31st place for hospital beds per capita.
I will not surrender my human rights to the health care mis-managers who bungled this for the last 20 years.
Could there be digital biomarkers in lung ultrasound images that cannot be seen by the human eye? Could this allow AI to make a bedside diagnosis > > a trained physician?
It is looking that way.
bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/3…
#POCUS #AI
@SchulichMedDent @LHSCCanada @lawsonresearch
Great term: "Hygiene Theater". Masks will be around for a while but how do we move on from the pointless, obsessive and costly surface cleaning?
“If surface transmission happened, it would require touching a newly contaminated surface, then very quickly touching your eyes, nose, or mouth without washing your hands.” @DKThomp pours cold water, mixed with a little sanitizer, on surface transmission: theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Academic medicine offers unique challenges along with unique rewards. The opportunity to influence leaders of tomorrow like @MathildeGSimard through our #POCUS fellowship offers a satisfaction that is hard to exaggerate. @GIMOttawa - get ready for the IM POCUS revolution!
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