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.[...]
Tag: Doppler
Epididymitis
This patient had acute onset of severe L testicular pain and could hardly walk. I thought he was a torsion for sure. However the flow was fine. I moved up to the epididymitis and sure enough it was enlarged and with increased flow. [ed. note] With any patient that has a high pretest likelihood of […]
Immediate diagnostic and therapeutic feedback with POCUS; one testicle at a time!
Dr. Joel Turner, the emergency medicine ultrasound director at McGill University and staff at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal sends another fantastic case of ultrasound guided testicular torsion reduction. Is it time for every ED physician to learn this skill? Time-critical care is our job! [ed] Case: Immediate diagnostic and therapeutic feedback with POCUS; […]
Yes, yes it is another scary neck case!
Look, we know you are probably tired of hearing us tell you about all the things you can find with POCUS that are missed on physical exam or other imaging modalities. Well too bad! Learn this stuff and make a big save yourself! Lloyd Gordon has another nice case involving the neck…[ed.] This fellow […]
What’s that red thing doing in an abscess??
At the course and in the book, we suggest that physicians should be wary of important neighboring structures. Even with EDE/POCUS guidance for abscesses, this is still a pitfall. I recently saw a young male who is an IV drug abuser. Yes, we do have those in Sudbury! He had injected himself and developed an […]
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