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Wearable Ultrasound for Deep Tissue Monitoring

Medagadget

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have created a wearable ultrasound system that can monitor deep tissues, as far as 16.5 Ultrasound-enabled wearables are enjoying a moment, with a variety of these technologies emerging recently. inches) below the surface of the body.

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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. Laboratory evaluation reveals a hemoglobin and hematocrit of 12.6/37.1

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Ultrasound-Equipped Bra Monitors for Breast Cancer

Medagadget

Researchers at MIT have developed a wearable ultrasound system that is intended to allow women at high risk of breast cancer to perform an ultrasound scan on themselves at home, and may also let patients with early-stage malignancy or suspicious lesions to monitor how they are progressing.

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Approach to Hernias in the ED

Taming the SRU

2) Management: Confirmed by CT Surgical consult Utility of Ultrasound Ultrasound can be helpful in identifying hernias and in assisting in reduction. 8) “Ultrasound may decrease the emergency surgery rate of incarcerated inguinal hernia” by Chen et al. (1) If the ultrasound-guided attempt failed, emergency surgery was scheduled.

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Clinical Conundrums: Do We Need to Order a CT for Every Patient with Renal Colic?

RebelEM

The panel included physicians from Emergency Medicine, Urology and Radiology and was published in major journals of all three specialities. Research from our very own SIUH department of radiology recommended that contrast-enhanced CT scans can safely exclude obstructive urolithiasis just as well as noncontrast CTs.

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SGEM#451: I’ve Become So Numb – Serratus Anterior Plane Blocks for Rib Fractures

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Interests include information systems and digital health, research and education. More recently, the April 2024 SGEMHOP reviewed a trial on how effective and safe an ultrasound-guided erector spinae plane block (ESPB) in adult patients with rib fractures is.

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SGEM#274: Hocus POCUS for Appendicitis?

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

Chip is the CEO of an ultrasound education company called Practical POCUS which is based in the United States but is expanding into an international market. However, ultrasound does have its limitations especially in obese patients or those unable to comply with the exam for reasons such as pain.