Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Enhance clinical practice with Point of Care Ultrasounds (POCUS). Find valuable insights, training, and resources for implementing this crucial diagnostic tool.

POCUS: Outside the Hospital

By |2024-08-17T23:22:47-05:00April 14, 2020|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

The usage of Point of Care Ultrasound, or POCUS, is vital to improving patient care in every department of a hospital or a medical practice. Expanding the use of POCUS in fields outside the four walls and confines of a building is just as vital to improving care to the greater community. In fact, Point of Care Ultrasound can save lives and provide vital information in a number of scenarios beyond how a doctor or nurse may perceive it within their standard care.

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Using POCUS for COVID-19

By |2025-11-14T10:23:20-06:00March 27, 2020|Course Information, Course News, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

Maverick Medical Education has always been passionate about training medical professionals in a wide array of techniques to provide communities with the best care and treatment options. We also reap the benefits of seeing how the techniques we are invested in can be utilized in different ways, rapidly adapting to serve the needs of our patients. While we intrinsically understand the importance of Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in multiple settings, we never imagined the benefits it may have to help medical teams in treating a global pandemic.

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Death of the Stethoscope

By |2025-11-14T09:26:20-06:00March 18, 2020|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

The stethoscope is such a normalized piece of equipment, it is constantly associated with the medical field. Doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and even dress up sets are rarely seen without a stethoscope slung around the neck or tucked away in a pocket. The stethoscope wasn’t always a part of routine medical examinations, however, and the use of this equipment revolutionized the field and care of patients. Just as the stethoscope altered medicine in the early 1800s, so too is point of care ultrasound, or POCUS. Ultrasound technology is being fine tuned and used in various medical settings, changing much about diagnostic and management in patient care.

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What We Teach: Point of Care Ultrasound

By |2025-11-14T09:45:38-06:00October 16, 2019|Course Information, Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)|

The medical field is defined by revolutionary advances, discoveries, and adjustments, which lead to better diagnoses, treatments, and prognoses of patients. Throughout medical history, there are some tools which standout as definitive points where a tool or device breaks down barriers in patient care. Called by some as the “stethoscope of this time”, Point of Care Ultrasound is an example of one of these definitive points. Maverick Medical Education educates and trains medical providers to be on the cutting edge of the use of point of care ultrasound, or POCUS.

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