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Speakers page - BIOS , introduction and summaries of talks

POCUS IN LOCUS REMOTUS  The Educational sessions are designed to entertain and engage enthusiastic POCUS practioners from many specialties, including Rural Hospitalists , Emergency Doctors, Physicians, community doctors and Nurse practitioners .  "Ted Talks" style rapid fire   1: 1400 hrs Introduction and Special Guest  This will be a video Link to an overseas special guest - 10minutes ( 20 max )  2: 1420 (latest) Cardiac POCUS 2: Dr Chris Wong - Echocardiologist and Anaesthetist  Chris is a full time Anaesthetist in Whangarei Hospital Northland. He also has a qualification in Echocardiography and runs Echo clinics for our local population .  His Topic is : Echocardiography the ED  Transthoracic echocardiography is extremely valuable for decision making in the ED.It is an invaluable tool for diagnosing the undifferentiated patient. Furthermore, it can help with the management of patients. Focussed echo is tool that an emergency physician can defiantly add