Lung ultrasound in acute care

Dr Hatem Soliman Aboumaries focuses on lung ultrasound in acute care explaining and its modality.

• History
• Principles
• Advantages of lung ultrasound
• Equipment requirements
• Scanning zones
• Probe location
• Scenarios overview

Dr Hatem Aboumarie is a consultant in cardiothoracic intensive care, clinical lead for organ donation and clinical lead for advanced critical care practitioners at Harefield Hospital. In addition to this role, he is an honorary senior lecturer at the School of Cardiovascular Medicine and Sciences at King’s College London.

Dr Hatem Aboumarie’s clinical expertise includes:

• critical care management of various cardiac and respiratory disorders
• management of patients on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for respiratory failure and cardiogenic shock
• management of different modalities of mechanical circulatory support including long-term left ventricular assist devices
• management of heart and lung transplantation
• expert application of echocardiography and point of care ultrasound in the intensive care unit.

Dr Hatem Aboumarie’s main research interests include: critical care echocardiography, point of care ultrasound, mechanical circulatory support, heart and lung transplantation.