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Critical care ultrasound is a rapidly growing branch of point-of-care ultrasound with a long list of applications ripe for utilization in the critical setting. Establishing a critical care ultrasound program requires resources and planning. The authors describe strategies for both adult and pediatric critical care programs including specific topics such as billing, equipment, and credentialing.

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Aliaksei Pustavoitau MD, MHS & Erik Su MD

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  1. Aliaksei Pustavoitau MD, MHS
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Correspondence to Aliaksei Pustavoitau MD, MHS .

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  1. Department of Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA

    Vivek S. Tayal

  2. Department of Emergency Medicine, St. Francis Hospital, Columbus Georgia, University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Columbia, South Carolina, USA

    Michael Blaivas

  3. Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge, Illinois, USA

    Troy R Foster

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Pustavoitau, A., Su, E. (2018). Critical Care Medicine. In: Tayal, V., Blaivas, M., Foster, T. (eds) Ultrasound Program Management. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63143-1_27

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