Learn and Explore the Emergency Ultrasound Timeline

Dr. Alexander Trott publishes an editorial in The Journal of Emergency Medicine. He writes "ultrasonography has significant applicability in emergency medicine."

Hennepin County Hospital acquires an EKO 5010 ultrasound machine from the head of Cardiology. Dr. Dave Plummer and colleagues begin to perform cardiac ultrasound exams in patients with suspected cardiac tamponade.

Two groups in Pittsburgh PA obtain an ScanMate II ultrasound machine. Drs' Dietrich Jehle and Mike Heller take the lead for their groups and begin performing a variety of ultrasound exams.

Drs' Jehle, Heller and Plummer present their research describing emergency physician performed ultrasound at ACEP Scientific Assembly in San Francisco.

Drs' Jehle and Plummer publish their experience and findings with emergency physician performed ultrasound.

The early emergency ultrasound leaders come together and form a group through ACAEP.

Dr. James Mateer at the Medical College of Wisconsin, goes to Germany to study ultrasound with Dr. Tom Tilling, a surgeon in Germany who has been doing ground breaking work with ultrasound in traumatically injured patients.

The early leaders in emergency ultrasound work with the ACEP Board of Directors to pass the very first policy on emergency physician performed ultrasound. 

The SAEM Board of Directors  approve the 1991 ACEP guidelines.

Dr. James Mateer begins the first emergency ultrasound fellowship and trains three fellows that first year.

The Model Curriculum for Physician Training in Emergency Ultrasonography is published. It describes the different ultrasound exams that emergency physicians can perform and the training requirements. The curriculum calls for 40 hours of training and 150 total ultrasound exams.

ACEP forms the Emergency Ultrasound Section. Dr. Mike Heller is the inaugural chair of the section.