Pre-hospital Echo
Image: Pocus (ultrasound) semi-portable by Dr Bowser, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pre-hospital physicians in Germany performed basic echo […]
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Ultrasound
Sonographic bits and bobs
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US determined best LP position
Here ultrasound was used to ascertain the best position for doing a lumbar puncture in kids, where the interspinous space […]
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Inadequate pre-hospital needle thoracostomy
Image: Venflon intravenous cannula 3, CC BY-SA 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons The purpose of this study was to evaluate the […]
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Hole in the head? Don't waste the window!
Image: Doppler ultrasound analyzer of blood velocity by Юрий Петрович Маслобоев / Yury Petrovich Masloboev, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia […]
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VF on echo
How can you not love those guys at hqmeded.com? Here’s a great case of theirs demonstrating the echocardiographic appearance of […]
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“Ski Lift” Ultrasound Technique
In Dr Jason Nomura’s excellent blog takeokun.com he describes his technique to assist in viewing the needle during in-plane ultrasound […]
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Great Ultrasound site
I recently had the pleasure of talking to some of the folks from the Henepin County Medical Centre Department of […]
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ED US for DVT
Image: Blausen 0290 DeepVeinThrombosis, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Made a radiologist go red with rage recently? If not, […]
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Aorta/IVC ratio and dehydration
Two studies this month report a correlation between ultrasound detected aorta/IVC ratio and dehydration in children presenting with diarrhoea and/or […]
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The Heart Point Sign
A case report describes the echo findings of a patient with a traumatic left sided pneumothorax. Although the subcostal view […]