Welcome to NephroPOCUS.com. The purpose of this website is to serve as a comprehensive resource for anybody interested in point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS), particularly pertaining to nephrology practice (= NephroPOCUS). It is home for growing collection of ultrasound images, interesting cases, infographics and visual abstracts. We exercise utmost care not to display any identifiable patient information and the consent was obtained from the patients where applicable.

Why POCUS? POCUS performed at the bedside is primarily intended to provide answers to focused questions such as: “Does the patient have hydronephrosis?”, “Is there a pericardial effusion?”, “what is the volume status?” etc. and narrow the differential diagnosis. Moreover, it serves as a non-invasive and a dynamic clinical tool that helps us monitor the response to interventions such as dialysis or diuretic therapy. It also enhances the care of end-stage renal disease patients on dialysis by allowing the physicians to detect subclinical hypervolemia and titrate the ultrafiltration goals.

Meet the team:

Abhilash Koratala is an academic nephrologist and currently the Director of Clinical Imaging for Nephrology at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Previously, he was at the University of Florida, where he developed a nephrology-oriented POCUS program for internal medicine residents and nephrology fellows. Dr. Koratala has also designed a comprehensive POCUS video curriculum encompassing all the diagnostic applications, currently considered to be within the scope of nephrology practice. In addition, he promotes POCUS on various online platforms and authors a series of posts for a feature called Focus on POCUN on the Renal Fellow Network, a nephrology blog that partners with the American Society of Nephrology. He serves as the associate editor of POCUN (Point of care ultrasound in nephrology) for the Renal Fellow Network.

Apart from POCUS, he enjoys all aspects of nephrology and has authored over 130 scientific publications, primarily comprising of but not limited to interesting case studies. Feel free to contact us with any questions or suggestions.

Content management advisor: Ms. Deepti Bhattacharya

Here is the video introduction to POCUS