Saving Brainspace with POCUS
February 8th, 2018
Here is a cool case that Lloyd Gordon recently sent us...
"A 60 year-old woman had a fever of 39.[...]
Rogue waves
POCUS Father’s Day
Not only am I an enthusiast for POCUS, my pre-teen daughters often get roped into being models for workshops and presentations. There was even an occasion when my (very young at the time) daughter claimed she didn’t have to use the washroom before going somewhere to play. I demonstrated to her what a full bladder […]
Does the heart REALLY stop when you give Adenosine to an SVT patient – find out with POCUS!
I know. It’s a question that you have all asked yourselves. Does Adenosine REALLY stop the heart when given for SVT? Thanks to POCUS/EDE, we have the answer! Rob Simard was in Sudbury last year doing his emergency ultrasound fellowship. He saw a patient with recurrent SVT. We decided to go with Adenosine since it […]
Canadian POCUS educators please take note!
Hello all Canadian POCUS keeners. There is a whole lot of ultrasound love about to happen at the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Annual Conference in Ottawa, Ontario May 31-June 4 2014. Sure, we all want to see Mel Herbert and Ian Stiell battle it out during their session on evidence and education but there […]
Yes, yes you do have time to do POCUS!
I was recently at the North York Emergency Medicine Update in Toronto, Ontario. An excellent emergency medicine conference, often the largest annual meeting of its type in Canada. During an amazing talk one of the plenary speakers, who loves ultrasound a lot, made a comment about rarely using it for nerve blocks. Why? Because […]
I can’t feel a pulse! Why not look for it instead?
I love to watch colleagues carefully palpate for pulses and try to listen for bruits, use doptones, etc. all the while desperately hoping they are not dealing with a completely ischemic limb. Then I grab my ultrasound machine and throw some colour doppler on the subject and get a much better picture of what’s going […]
Time-saving technique for difficult lumbar punctures
Lumbar puncture failure, although not a catastrophic event, is always frustrating and time consuming. Skin marking after identifying spinous processes with ultrasound is an interesting method to increase your success rate. However, real time ultrasound guided lumbar puncture is relatively easy to do and faster than skin marking. I personally use the abdominal probe with […]
Scrotal U/S-infection
Another pearl from Dr. Gordon regarding scanning the testes: When one testicle shows no flow or much reduced flow on the painful side, torsion is likely. In this patient the presentation was not as acute as expected of torsion. Scrotal U/S showed increased flow on the painful side and the painful testicle was also larger […]
Widened symphysis on POCUS
A few of us (@thomas1973, @mikegreenway, @broomedocs) were discussing on Twitter the use of POCUS/EDE to look for a widened symphysis pubis in the setting of major trauma. We were wondering if there is any literature to back that up. I found one article in the EDE database. Bauman et al published their article titled […]
Bootcamp EDE: Drop and give me 200
The biggest obstacle to beginners embracing POCUS is the initial effort required to master basic skills. Most learners complete an introductory course that takes a day or two. This is followed by supervised scanning sessions and examinations to meet the required numbers and proficiency to be “certified” to apply the skill independently. This can require […]
3rd Annual EDE 3 Course Announcement!
I am happy to announce the third annual EDE 3 course! There has been a lot of demand for a Canadian location for the course so it’s going to be a ski vacation this time around. It will be held at the Delta Sun Peaks resort in Sun Peaks British Columbia Feb 2-3 2015. Sun […]
Recent Comments