Echocardiography videos from Vienna
Folks from the Medical University of Vienna have produced a great resource with free online echocardiography videos at www.123sonography.com Check […]
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Ultrasound
Sonographic bits and bobs
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Novel subclavian cannulation method
Ultrasound-guided subclavian vein cannulation has reduced complications, but there is still a high incidence of failure to cannulate the vein […]
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Ultrasound measurement of optic nerve sheath diameter
Here’s the abstract from a new study contributing the literature on ED assessment of raised intracranial pressure using ocular ultrasound: […]
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Small bowel obstruction
When assessed against CT as gold standard, ultrasound diagnosis of small bowel obstruction by emergency physicians compared favourably with abdominal […]
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Asian Emergency Ultrasound Network
Got an interesting ultrasound case to share? You can upload it to the Asian Emergency Ultrasound Network. A great growing […]
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Echo in life support feasible
Emergency physicians in Cambridge and Ipswich in the UK prospectively documented their echo use in cardiac arrest. Images were easily […]
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McConnell's sign revisited
In acute pulmonary embolism, a well-recognised pattern of right ventricular wall motion reported by McConnell is characterised by normal RV […]
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Pulmonary embolism echo
Academic Emergency Medicine has a free article on sonographic detection of submassive pumonary embolism, with three video clips. One of […]
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Another pneumoperitoneum
This Video from Academic Emergency Medicine shows distinct hyperechoic foci with reverberation artifacts visualised within free fluid, suggesting associated free […]
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Pneumoperitoneum
This video from the Trauma Association of Canada shows sonographic detection of intraperitoneal free air [quicktime]http://www.traumacanada.org/media/pneumoperitoneum_video.mov[/quicktime]