This video is brought to you by the Stanford Medicine 25 to teach you how to use bedside point of care ultrasound.

In this video we show you cardiac point of care ultrasound (echocardiography) by simultaneously demonstrating the position of the probe and ultrasound images. In this video, we focus on how to exam the inferior vena cava (IVC).

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0:00 - Intro
0:46 - Patient Positioning
1:15 - Obtaining the IVC View
8:56 - Challenges Finding the IVC
11:40 - Transhepatic View of the IVC
13:05 - End
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This video is led by Dr. John Kugler. He is faculty at Stanford and a hospitalist with extensive experience in point of care ultrasound.

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