Kay Odashima, MD

Dr. Kay Odashima is an Emergency Medicine Attending Physician with subspecialty training in Emergency Ultrasound. She graduated from Tufts University and trained in both Emergency Medicine and Ultrasound at Maimonides Medical Center. She has been in practice over 10 years and enjoys resident education and bringing Ultrasound-guided Regional Anesthesia into the Emergency Department.

Selected Scholarly Activity:

BlockCamp: A One-Day Boot Camp to Teach Ultrasound Guided Nerve Blocks

Cen, E., & Odashima, K. (2022). Ultrasound-guided reduction of umbilical hernia. Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, 28, 101401.

Ghei, R., Perice, L., & Odashima, K. (2022). Incidental Diagnosis of Honeycomb Gallbladder on Point-of-Care Ultrasound. Cureus, 14(12).

Liu, J., & Odashima, K. (2022). Use of ultrasound-guided transversus abdominis plane block for incision and drainage of abdominal abscess in the emergency department. Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, 29, 101446.

Shang, D., & Odashima, K. (2021). Diagnosis of an occult supracondylar fracture with point-of-care ultrasound in a pediatric patient. Visual Journal of Emergency Medicine, 25, 101181.

Odashima, K., Kluger, S. B., Keenan, P., & Dickman, E. (2020). Ultrasound-Guided Thoracic Procedures. The Ultimate Guide to Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Procedures, 251-270.

Beals, T., Odashima, K., Haines, L. E., Likourezos, A., Drapkin, J., & Dickman, E. (2019). Interscalene brachial plexus nerve block in the emergency department: an effective and practice-changing workshop. The ultrasound journal, 11, 1-6.

Naraghi L, Lin J, Odashima K, Buttar S, Haines L, Dickman E. Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia simulation: use of meat glue in inexpensive and realistic nerve block models. BMC Med Educ. 2019 May 15;19(1):145. doi: 10.1186/s12909-019-1591-1. PMID: 31092233; PMCID: PMC6521358.