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Resuscitation scenarios require rapid diagnostic and therapeutic decisions tailored to a patient’s underlying condition and evolving physiology. Diagnostic and monitoring tools that can reliably reveal organ failure or life-threatening conditions at the bedside are of the utmost value in these often overwhelming situations. The use of point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) has become an integral part of critical care and resuscitative medicine in recent years. A major accelerant of the POCUS revolution, across all clinical domains, has been the miniaturization of ultrasonography machines, allowing them to be brought to patients easily, rather than requiring patients to be transported away from their clinical environments to be imaged. Nowhere has this paradigm shift been more beneficial to patients and providers than with the critically ill patient. Whether in a prehospital setting, the emergency department (ED), or the …