A preference for education occurring at the bedside is described in decades of literature [16], [17], [18], [19], [20], and is accompanied by commentary on the substantial decrease in bedside education with each generation of trainees [30], [31], [32].
Medical diagnostics require a rapid, accurate and portable system which could easily be available in patients' bedside with real-time monitoring system.
This is a report on a single academic institution's experience with a faculty credentialing programme in bedside ultrasound for physicians with a diversity of prior experience in bedside ultrasonography.
Although functional magnetic resonance imaging and positron emission tomography have many advantages, including high spatial resolution, they have serious limitations in evaluating a drug's therapeutic effects in bedside settings, especially for children with certain developmental disorders.
Sophistication in bedside EEG hardware is increasing, with multi-channel EEG recording, various data reduction functions such as the Bispectral Index, and evoked potential analysis becoming available to the ICU.
In the future, we anticipate that drug quantification will be performed in a similar way to glucose measurement using handheld devices at the bedside with built-in dosing software.
The hospital where this credentialing programme in bedside ultrasound was instituted included physicians with diverse prior experience in bedside ultrasonography.
Additionally, regional ventilation was monitored by EIT for the evaluation of ventilation in real-time at bedside with one prominent case of pneumothorax.
To describe a single academic facility's experience with a faculty credentialing process in bedside ultrasound.
A bedside fall was defined as an unexpected event in which the participant came to rest on the ground, floor or lower level in the area around the bedside, with the bedside being defined as the area encompassed by the curtained area surrounding the bed.
