There are almost 1,000,000 pulmonary embolisms per year. Do all of them need to be admitted? From a dispo standpoint, it can be easier when you’re at larger academic centers to admit or obs them all but the reality is that s…
Bottom line up front: A recent large, high quality meta-analysis reported a significant mortality effect with the use of liberal, rather than conservative, oxygen supplementation. The number needed harm for 30-day mortality was 1 in 126. A…
Title: “The 52 in 52 Review: Early goal-directed therapy in the treatment of severe sepsis and septic shock” Article Citation: Rivers E, Nguyen B, Havstad S, Ressler J, et al; Early Goal-Directed Therapy Collaborative Group. Early goal-dire…
When you come across peripheral intravascular air, take steps to minimize further entrainment of air and migration of air to the heart and lungs.
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine recently welcomed its incoming first-year class in its traditional White Coat Ceremony. In a day filled with inspirational talks by prominent faculty and medical leaders, students don their new white coats…
Congratulations to Sinai’s own Dr. Jim Tsung, who recently coauthored a major evidence-based consensus guideline on point-of-care lung ultrasound. The manuscript is the result of a multi-national effort by pioneering clinician-sonogra…
On November 17, 2011 Dr. Braden Hexom presented research organized by Mount Sinai and conducted at JFK Hospital in Liberia. The project, Evaluation of Novel Obstetrics Ultrasound Curriculum for Local Healthcare Providers in Liberia Bentley…
On September 28 Dr. Suzanne Bentley presented the abstract: Ultrasound evaluation for appendicitis in children: Can we safely reduce CT scan utilization? Bentley S, Nelson BP, Zahn L at ACEP in Las Vegas. Data on using ultrasound as a first…
Bret Nelson and Mt. Sinai’s director of Disaster Preparedness and Prehospital Care, Kevin Chason, collaborated on this pilot study on use of Prehospital FAST and Aorta US which showed that paramedics can obtain and interpret these stu…
Visual Diagnosis Case from JEM. Bret and Ted discuss a case of appendicitis confirmed with ultrasound after CT was not conclusive.
The ultrasound division is proud to welcome two research scholars: Dr. Hong Chuen Toh and Dr. Shiang-Hu Ang. Dr Hong Chuen Toh is an Associate Consultant from the Department of Emergency Medicine, Alexandra Hospital, Singapore. He obtained…
Data from the TRUST (Thoracic Rapid Ultrasound in Trauma) study was presented at the fifth EM Congress in Valencia, Spain on 9/17/2009. The project was selected as one of the top 50 abstracts at the conference. Special thanks to Danny Duque…
