Does RV enlargement on echo predict PE?
A nice paper from Annals of Emergency Medicine showing the test characteristcs of some of the common signs we look […]
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echocardiography
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Predicting volume responsiveness
One of the current Holy Grails of ED critical care is to find a reliable measure of fluid responsiveness in […]
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Echo for cardiac arrest outcome prediction
A meta-analysis of studies evaluation transthoracic echo as a means of predicting return of spontaneous circulation in cardiac arrest (ROSC) […]
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Echocardiography in Pulmonary Embolism
I had great fun joining in a Google Hangout with the Ultrasound Podcast guys and some real masters of emergency/critical […]
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Is diastolic worse than systolic dysfunction in sepsis?
Septic myocardial dysfunction is a well recognised contributor to shock in sepsis but for many of us we assume this […]
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Posterior pericardiocentesis
Dr Emanuele Catena and colleagues report a case of an adult male who presented 7 days post cardiac surgery with […]
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Prehospital echo predicts arrest outcome
In hospital, the detection of cardiac standstill with ultrasound predicts a fatal outcome from cardiac arrest with a high degree […]
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Thrombolysis in submassive PE – still equipoise?
The AHA has produced a comprehensive guideline on venous thromboembolic disease. Here are some excerpts pertaining to resuscitation room decision […]
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An easily missed cause of shock
A potentially reversible cause of haemodynamic shock in critically ill patients is left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (LVOTO). We are […]
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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 […]