Happy New Year!

Thanks to Dr. Fleischman for this interesting case   62 year old woman with obesity, htn, hld, copd presents with sudden onset left upper quadrant pain, painful respiration. No f,n/v/d. Patient is noted to be in pain, tachycardic, norm…

Case- Abdominal pain

Patient with history of hypertension presents periumbilical abdominal pain radiating to the back. Minimal abdominal tenderness, no rebound or guarding, though  a pulsatile mass is felt. The following ultrasound is obtained: https://gmep.or…

Back to the Source

With the proliferation of online educational modalities (blogs, educational websites, podcasts, twitter feeds) designed for rapid dissemination and translation of our basic Ultrasound knowledge to the bedsides around the globe, we must occa…

What The Heck 1

This patient presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. There was RUQ tenderness on exam, but no fever, rebound or Murphy sign. A point-of-care ultrasound was performed to assess for signs of cholecystitis and the following image w…

Pearl 12/28

18 y.o. male h/o asthma presenting with chest pain this AM. Pain was substernal, crushing with intermittent sharpness, and has been waxing and waning all day. CP is pleuritic, not positional. Also reports some malaise, decreased appetite, n…

AAMC article

The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has written an article about ultrasound education at the medical school level. In the current edition of their widely distributed publication The Reporter, they describe programs at the Un…

Pearl 12/27

A 32-year-old man presented, complaining of a painful erection for the last 18 hours. His medical history was significant for sickle cell disease,  insomnia and depression, for which he was taking quetiapine, bupropion, and prazosin. Examin…

Ultrasound Zen

To image something which moves, you must remain still. To image something which is still, you must move. If you think on this long enough, the point is self-evident and requires no explanation. Or, just see some examples below. We are prett…

A Clarification and a Correction

SVC Syndrome Clarification Dr. Genes pointed out that while likely still the most common etiology of SVCS is cancer, the emerging etiology is Pacemaker implantation/extraction.   I didn’t find evidence that it is the clear cut most com…

Influenza on the Rise

25 year old F with no pmh present with 3 days of fever, chills, body aches, sore throat. She is a school teacher and has had many of her kids out sick this week. Her vitals are stable, and she is in no acute distress. She is triaged to the…

Heme Questions

Here are some Heme questions for your holiday weekend. Enjoy! 1. A 9-year-old female with mild type I von Willebrand’s disease presents with mild gingival bleeding after her first overly vigorous attempt to use dental floss. She stopp…

Pearl for 12/21

A 25 yo male with no PMH walks into your ED complaining of right neck pain, right shoulder stiffness,  and cough x 1 month, no fevers chills. On exam his vitals are all within normal limits, exam is notable for right sided swelling and asym…

Derm Pearl

A 36 year old male presents to your resus bay complaining of allergic reaction, took first dose of Bactrim last night, started having pruritis, chills, body aches last night and now entire face, chest and back are erythematous and warm. No…

Pearl 12/17

Thanks to Dr. Glassberg for this case: A middle aged patient with pmh of htn, remote cva with minimal left sided deficits is brought in by wife after fall while intoxicated. Wife is concerned because patient falls frequently x years but now…

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