A Practical Guide to Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) (PDF)

Dr Arunangshu Chakraborty (MBBS, MD) graduated from Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College Kolkata, India and received postgraduate qualification in anesthesiology from Moti Lal Nehru Medical College, Allahabad, India. He is a consultant anesthesiologist at Tata Medical Center, Kolkata, India, which is a tertiary level oncology center. He has several peer reviewed international publications and has delivered many oral presentations in national and international level meetings. He is an executive committee member of Academy of Regional Anesthesia, India and reviewer of many international peer reviewed medical journals. His areas of interest include regional anesthesia, onco-anesthesia and medical ultrasound. He has edited and authored a textbook of regional anaesthesia.

Dr. Balakrishnan Ashokka (MBBS, MD, DNB, FANZCA, MHPE, EDRA) is a consultant anesthesiologist and simulation program director (anesthesia division) at National University Hospital and CenMed Associate at Centre for Medical Education (CenMed), National University of Singapore. He has 13 years of experience in high fidelity simulation based undergraduate, postgraduate medical and allied acute care teaching. He is the module lead for MHPE program for the Maastricht-Singapore Collaboration at the Academy of Medicine, Singapore. He has a fellowship of the Australia New Zealand College of Anesthesiologists (FANZCA) and masters in health professions educations (MHPE) from Maastricht, Netherlands.

Dr. Ashokka's special interests are postgraduate exam support, simulation based postgraduate and undergraduate education, Inter professional education through acute care simulation and multidisciplinary team training. He has conducted international workshops in simulation, airway and crisis management for acute care practitioners, trauma teams, anesthesiologists and nursing delegates and medical education faculty development programs in USA, Taiwan, Philippines, China, Australia, Thailand, Indonesia,