Dr Daniel Nevin is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pre-Hospital Care, and is the Lead for the Trauma Anaesthesia Group at The Royal London Hospital and London’s Air Ambulance.  He also developed and leads on point-of-care ultrasound for this service. Daniel discusses how findings from PoCUS influences management in many critically injured patients and also describes the importance of having a robust governance system in place to help maintain standards.

Dr Chris Yap is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. He has a diploma in medical US from the University of Teesside and he is a frequent contributor to the POCUS teaching network.  Chris is also the current point-of-care US committee Chair of the Royal College of Emergency medicine.  He talks about problem-solving with POCUS and how it can help avoid unnecessary invasive procedures.  That said, his wise advice is ‘never do POCUS just for the sake of it’.

Dr Muhamad Jasim is a Rheumatology/Acute Medicine Consultant at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust.  He talks about how his ability to use PoCUS is a huge advantage in the assessment of many of his rheumatology patients. Muhamad also emphasises the value of a multidisciplinary approach and the importance of image storage for observation of interval changes.