Pre-hospital Echo
Pre-hospital physicians in Germany performed basic echo on patients with symptoms either of profound hypotension and/or severe dyspnoea/tachypnoea where judged […]
Acute Med, All Updates, PHARM, Resus, Ultrasound
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
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the frequency of inadequate needle chest thoracostomy in the prehospital setting in […]
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Hole in the head? Don't waste the window!
Zampieri and colleagues from Brazil report the use of brain ultrasound in two ICU patients who had had hemicraniectomies. One […]
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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
Made a radiologist go red with rage recently? If not, you could try showing them this paper1 in this month’s […]
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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 […]