Training the Anesthesiologist in Point-of-Care Ultrasound Ranjit Deshpande, MD Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut Mario Montealegre-Gallegos, MD Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Robina Matyal, MD Department of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Kiran Belani, MD Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts Nikhil Chawla, MD Department of Anesthesiology, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut In 1816, the practice of medicine was revolutionized when Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Lae ¨nnec tightly rolled a sheet of paper and used it as an aid to listen to a patient’s heart. Since then, the stethoscope has become ubiquitous in medicine, and auscultation is taught across medical schools worldwide. Many will agree that a similar diagnostic revolution is currently occurring. Nearly 200 years after the stetho- scope, ultrasound technology has left the domain of radiologists and cardiologists and is now used across multiple specialties. 1 Improvements in image quality and portability of ultrasound equipment have made some refer to it as “the stethoscope of the 21st century.” 2 Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is the use of ultrasound imaging to assist patient management at the bedside (ie, at the point of care). In the perioperative period, POCUS is usually performed by appropriately trained anesthesiologists. There is some evidence that POCUS may lead to enhanced perioperative patient safety. 3 Furthermore, some believe that the implementation of perioperative surgical homes will increase the demand for POCUS-trained anesthesiologists. 4 INTERNATIONAL ANESTHESIOLOGY CLINICS Volume 54, Number 1, 71–93 Copyright r 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. REPRINTS:RANJIT DESHPANDE, MD, YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE, PO BOX 208051, NEW HAVEN, CT 06520-8051. E-MAIL: RANJIT .DESHPANDE@YALE.EDU Copyright r 2016 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved. www.anesthesiaclinics.com | 71