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: spleen
Infectious Mononucleosis? Measure that spleen!
A reminder that POCUS can improve your sensitivity for diagnosing diseases, even in your low acuity patients. We all know the Monspot test can be negative for Mono patients depending on when they present to us. Don’t forget to have a quick look at the spleen if the rest of the clinical presentation points towards […]
POCUS for the Kissing Disease
That’s right! You can use POCUS in the workup of the patient with suspected infectious mononucleosis. So say Drs. Sarah Farukhi and JC Fox from UC Irvine. They published their case report in the latest issue of CUJO, the Critical Ultrasound Journal. These are cases that we see all the time. Mid-late teens. Exudative pharyngitis. […]
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