The Skeptics' Guide to EM

AUGUST 17, 2024

He works in prehospital (EMS and HEMS), and at Morales Meseguer Hospital in public medical service in Murcia, Spain. Franciso has postgraduate Master's degrees in emergencies and urgent care, clinical ultrasound, and emergency and disaster management, from the University of Elche, the University of Madrid, and the University of Oviedo.

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ACEP Now

JANUARY 4, 2025

1 Just one year prior, Dr. Clarke had begun an emergency medicine residency at what was then known as LA CountyUSC Hospital, Los Angeles. Firsthand Account An ambulance bay at the LA County-USC Hospital in 1978. Dr. Clarke was then hired as assistant director in the emergency department (ED) at Pomona Valley Hospital, Pomona, Calif.

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Taming the SRU

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Six days prior, the patient was evaluated at an urgent care and prescribed doxycycline and prednisone. Ocular point-of-care-ultrasound (POCUS) was performed as seen below. The patient was transitioned to a 10 day course of cefpodoxime and was discharged on hospital day 3 with ENT and ophthalmology follow up.

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EMDocs

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The facility does not have ultrasound (US) availability at the time of the patient’s presentation, as the sonographer comes to the hospital only 2 days a week. First, examine the patient and risk-stratify them for the diagnosis of DVT before deciding on the clinical utility of an ultrasound. Ultrasound. 2011;31(1):1-5.

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Urgent Care Ultrasounds

APRIL 17, 2019

A window to your heart… A woman in her 40’s presented to the urgent care clinic with a four day history of cough and fevers following an upper respiratory tract infection the week prior. Suspecting pneumonia, an ultrasound examination began over the site of the crackles at the left posterio-lateral chest.

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Urgent Care Ultrasounds

OCTOBER 24, 2018

An Anomalous Incidental – and ode to #POCUS #FOAMed Point of Care Ultrasound is based on the ability to answer binary, yes / no questions. Unfortunately ultrasound is not binary, but rather multiple shades of grey. The Case A young woman presented to the urgent care clinic following the onset of severe LUQ abdominal pain.

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Urgent Care Ultrasounds

APRIL 1, 2018

POCUS reveals Hickam’s Dictum A 19 year old man presented to the urgent care clinic complaining of 2 months of increasing lethargy. However, the point of care ultrasound images also reveal a dilated cardiomyopathy with severely reduced LV systolic function.

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