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Ultrasound of the Month: Ocular Abscess

Taming the SRU

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. Our patient underwent anterior orbitotomy, but there are case reports in the literature of ultrasound-guided drainage (4). Brzycki et al.

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Ocular POCUS and ICP elevation

Mount Sinai EM

She was seen in urgent care for these headaches two weeks ago, and was prescribed naproxen, which has not significantly improved her symptoms. Her headaches have been intermittent, however over the past few days she has had a few episodes of vomiting and brief episodes of blurred vision. Her headache is 8/10 currently.

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SGEM Xtra: The Final Countdown – To IncrEMentuM 2025

The Skeptics' Guide to EM

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. Carmen María Cano is an Emergency Medicine doctor.

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Ultrasound of the Month - Not all veggies are good for your health

Downeast Emergency Medicine

She was seen at urgent care the day prior for a worsening progressive cough, shortness of breath, and pleuritic right anterolateral chest pain. Her laboratory workup at urgent care was reviewed included the following labs (pertinent positives in parenthesis): CBC (WBC 12.6)

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Point-of-care ultrasound for the diagnosis of Fournier gangrene

Emergency Medicine Journal

He was seen at an urgent care centre approximately 1 week prior to presentation, where he was diagnosed with cellulitis and prescribed trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole. Case presentation A 57-year-old man with a history of recently diagnosed diabetes mellitus presented to the ED with 2 weeks of perineal pain and swelling.

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Case 20 – Stethoscopically occult pneumonopathies

Urgent Care Ultrasounds

Left PLAPS point Despite the obvious consolidation on ultrasound the CXR is clear. In all three there was clear ultrasound evidence of pneumonia. However I am becoming increasingly convinced that an answer to this question is the use of point of care lung ultrasound (LUS). and reduced breath sounds (15-49%, 73-95%, 2.3

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Case 22 – New dog, new tricks

Urgent Care Ultrasounds

This case is courtesy of Dr Nigel Tay, at the time an Urgent Care trainee from Auckland. Dr Tay attended a weekend training course with Wellington Ultrasound and UIE , and after purchasing a Butterfly iQ he quickly showed that you do not need to be an old dog to learn new tricks. On examination t – 36.8 Acad Emerg Med.