Specialty	Emergency Medicine
Clinical Interests	ACLS
	Asthma
	Emergency Medicine
	Pediatric Emergency Medicine
	Ultrasound
Gender	Male
E-mail	bret.nelson@mountsinai.org
Education and Training	MD, SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine
	Residency, Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Awards	Excellence in Teaching Award Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Residency
	Excellence in Emergency Medicine Award Society for Academic Emergency Medicine
	Resident Teaching Award Harvard Medical School
	Attending of the Year Award Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Residency
	2008 Excellence in Teaching Mount Sinai Institute for Medical Education

Dr. Bret Nelson is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine. He is the Associate Site Director of the residency program based at The Mount Sinai Hospital. He is also the Director of the Mount Sinai program in ultrasound training.

Dr. Nelson's research interests include ultrasound, education, airway management, and asthma. He is currently involved in several ultrasound research projects including trauma sonography, bedside cardiac echocardiography, and ectopic pregnancy evaluation. In addition, Dr. Nelson is currently investigating the use of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in acute asthma exacerbations.

Education and Training	MD, SUNY at Stony Brook School of Medicine
	Residency, Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Board Certification	Emergency Medicine

Specialty	Emergency Medicine
Clinical Interests	ACLS
	Asthma
	Emergency Medicine
	Pediatric Emergency Medicine
	Ultrasound
Board Certification	Emergency Medicine

Emergency Ultrasound

-Diagnostic accuracy of thoracic rapid ultrasound in trauma (TRUST)

-Prehospital focused assessment with sonography in trauma (P-FAST)

-Bedside ultrasound assessment of acute dyspnea

Asthma
-Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) in acute asthma

Noble VE, Nelson BP, Sutingco AN. Manual of Emergency and Critical Care Ultrasound. New York, NY, Cambridge University Press;.

Nelson BP, Meyers C, Hermann L. Images in emergency medicine. Hemorrhagic pancreatitis. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2007; 49(6): 734.

Nelson BP, Basavaraju S, Baumlin K. Sonographic diagnosis of axillary artery aneurysm in patient with painful axillary mass. Annals of Emergency Medicine 2006; 48(3): 339-340.

Nelson BP, Senecal EL, Hong C, Ptak T, Thomas SH. Opioid analgesia and assessment of the sonographic Murphy sign. Journal of Emergency Medicine 2005; 28(4): 409-413.

Nelson BP, Cohen D, Lander O, Crawford N, Viccellio AW, Singer AJ. Mandated pain scales improve frequency of emergency department analgesia administration. American Journal of Emergency Medicine 2004; 22: 582-585.

Andrews M, Nelson BP. Atrial Fibrillation. Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine 2006; 73(1): 482-492.

Nelson BP, Benzer T, Isselbacher EM. Thoracic Aneurysm. eMedicine Journal 2003;.

Nelson BP, Thomas SH. Thoracic respiratory disorders: Aspiration of gastric contents. In: Aghababian RV, editor. Essentials of Emergency Medicine. Sudbury, MA, Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 2006.

Nelson BP. Epistaxis. In: Schaider J, Hayden S, Wolfe R, editors. Rosen and Barkin's 5 Minute Emergency Medicine Consult, 2nd Edition. Philadelphia, PA, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins;.