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The Future of Care | A Publication by the POCUS Certification Academy | Winter 2019

POCUS:
TRANSFORMING
THE FUTURE

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POCUS:

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future

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“We love to teach. We believe in it. It makes us better providers.
The relationships built from it are invaluable.”

Treat every patient as if they were and on vasoactive drips, going to the other The hospital is also
your mother or father because they side of the hospital and down the stairs,” starting a PA-POCUS
are someone's mother or father. Kollpainter shares. internship program
This is the patient care philosophy of with six students being
Robert Kollpainter, a Physician Assistant He was directed by his supervising mentored through a year
(PA) at Aspirus Wausau Hospital. physician to learn how to do it himself. and a half course.
So Kollpainter did. He dedicated himself
He works with surgeons whose patients to learning Point-of-Care Ultrasound and The internship program is just one
not only require but expect to receive did one better by earning his ARDMS avenue Aspirus has to facilitate learning.
the utmost care as they need a health credentials and becoming the first PA The cardiology department at Aspirus is
turnaround. It is this philosophy and the certified by the POCUS Certification currently learning lung POCUS in an effort
vitality that Kollpainter places on patient Academy. to strengthen its heart failure clinic. It
care that motivates him to stay abreast of believes that the data is very supportive
medical trends and advances. “We have had a critical care line service regarding the use of POCUS in heart
for about 12 years now, performing failure and strongly suggest that the
Aspirus Wausau Hospital is a level two anywhere between 10 to 12 PICC lines a use of ultrasound benefits in preventing
trauma center with a top-notch cardiac week, as well as ultrasound-guided arterial readmission and provides overall better
surgery program performing 350 to 400 lines, central lines, and hemodialysis management of patients with congestive
cardiac surgery procedures annually. Also, catheters at the bedside,” Kollpainter heart failure.
Aspirus performs a significant number of proudly exclaims.
procedures that range from chest tubes to Aspirus is seeing the need and the future
thoracentesis, all impacted by the use of At Aspirus, Point-of-Care Ultrasound with a little help from Kollpainter. He is not
ultrasound. has made its most significant impact shying away any time soon from being an
in the operating rooms of cardiac advocate for Point-of-Care Ultrasound and
"I believe strongly that surgery. In addition to evaluating the positive impacts it is having on patient
[POCUS] is the direction conduit for myocardial revascularization care.
that medicine is moving. veins, it assists care providers with
I just don't believe I could arterial and femoral venous lines. “In "I believe strongly that this is the direction
ethically go back to the process of any cardiac surgical that medicine is moving. I just don't believe
practicing the way I did procedure, the patient will be completely I could ethically go back to practicing the
prior to POCUS.” anticoagulated,” Kollpainter explains, way I did prior to POCUS.” ◊
“femoral line placement, particularly when
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BE THE FUTURE OF CARE.

The POCUS (Point-of-Care) Certification AcademyTM seeks to empower
healthcare professionals to provide the best possible care. We believe that the
future of ultrasound is portable and mobile, enabling faster care which leads
to efficient, effective and better patient experiences. The POCUS Certificates &
Certifications are appropriate for physicians and advanced practice providers
who use point-of-care ultrasound for clinical evaluation.

VISIT POCUS.ORG TO LEARN
HOW YOU CAN BE CERTIFIED.

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the practice, the trends and its impact on
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