Tag: early pregnancy

Rare as rare can be…easily picked up with POCUS!

Steve Socransky • December 7, 2017 • 0 Comments

I am working away on the French version of the eBook making a few edits as I go. One important addition is a video from Dr Bernard Richard. Bernard is an EDE 2 instructor based in Valleyfield, Québec. He saw a young women with a first trimester presentation, some combination of pain and bleeding. The […]

Pseudogestational sac

Steve Socransky • December 30, 2013 • 0 Comments

You all know to be wary of the pseudogestational sac in the setting of a potential ectopic pregnancy. An article by Benson this past March in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine gives us a little more data regarding this entity. The pub med link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23443178 The quick and dirty summary… This article was from […]

Making Mountains out of Moles: The molar pregnancy

Greg Hall • November 30, 2013 • 0 Comments

I was called into an exam room by our physician assistant the other day. She had just done a POCUS on a 43 year old female, gravida 5, 10 weeks pregnant, with vaginal spotting and no significant pain. We are lucky to have some keen PA’s who are completing their certification in basic POCUS. This […]