• Ranjit Deshpande and Davinder Ramsingh.
• aDepartment of Anesthesiology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut bDepartment of Anesthesiology, Loma Linda Medical Center, Loma Linda, California, USA.
• Curr Opin Anaesthesiol. 2017 Dec 1; 30 (6): 663-669.

Purpose Of ReviewUltrasound has become readily available in the perioperative area. In this review, we aim to bring forth some uses of ultrasound beyond that in regional anesthesia.Recent FindingsCritical care and emergency physicians have embraced ultrasound in their respective fields. We as anesthesiologists and practitioners of acute care medicine are not immune to this penetration. There is been a lot of recent literature on the various uses of perioperative point of care ultrasound. Our review summarizes the recent data and provides the reader with an overall idea of the uses of ultrasound in the perioperative arena.SummaryFocus towards improving patient outcomes is the goal of all physicians and point of care ultrasound is one modality that can help us manage some common conditions in the perioperative period. Perioperative point of care ultrasound training may soon become a prerequisite for an anesthesiology residency.

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