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Ultrasound of the Month: No Definitive Yolk Sac, No Definitive IUP!

Taming the SRU

A bedside ultrasound is completed to assess the location of the pregnancy. A radiology performed ultrasound is ordered and has similar findings– Impression: no definitive IUP with a small amount of free fluid within physiologic limits. At this point, the patient is taken to the operating room for a diagnostic laparoscopy.

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The Latest in Critical Care, 4/1/24 (Issue #36)

PulmCCM

” But less than half of the included studies used ultrasound guidance during central line placements. Ultrasound guidance during CVC placement has been a recommended practice since 2001 by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, with multiple professional societies echoing that recommendation in the following decade.

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Episode 25: Tension pneumothorax 2

PHEM Cast

Journal of Special Operations Medicine : a Peer Reviewed Journal for SOF Medical Professionals , 13 (4), 53–58. Ultrasound determination of chest wall thickness: implications for needle thoracostomy. Ultrasound in Emergency Medicine. The Journal of Trauma , 71 , S408–S412. link] Cullinane, D., Bass, J., & Rutherford, E.

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The Private Equity Wave in Health Care

ACEP Now

While secrecy surrounds the operations of many PE-owned groups, Envision serves as a case study. Her primary interests are in ultrasound, machine learning, and health justice. Stinson said, “There have been [PE] facilities where I worked where a third to a half of the staff are all new residents. They leave the area deprived of access.”

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Airway Choices in the Era of Many Choices

EM Updates

The age of VL was ushered in by the 2001 Glidescope, which simultaneously introduced two technologies: video (putting a camera at the end of the blade and projecting the image onto a screen), and hyperangulated geometry (blades with a much steeper curve that are designed not to move the tongue out of the way, but to advance around the tongue).

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Episode 19 - Cannabinoids: Emerging Evidence in Use and Abuse

EB Medicine

It was peer-reviewed by Joseph Habboushe, assistant professor at NYU and Nadia Maria Shaukat, director of the emergency and critical care ultrasound at Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, New York. Make sure that the patient knows not to operate vehicles or heavy machinery under the influence of drugs. Counsel them on drug abuse also.

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Emergency Department Syncope Workup: After H and P, ECG is the Only Test Required for Every Patient.

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

Check : [vitals, SOB, Chest Pain, Ultrasound] If the patient has Abdominal Pain, Chest Pain, Dyspnea or Hypoxemia, Headache, Hypotension , then these should be considered the primary chief complaint (not syncope). 111(3):177-84, 2001 Aug 15. Aortic Dissection, Valvular (especially Aortic Stenosis), Tamponade. orthostatic vitals b.