Category Name: Ultrasound G.E.L.

Ultrasound G.E.L.

Ultrasound G.E.L. – Ultrasound Guided Nerve Block for Shoulder Dislocations

You are treating someone with a shoulder dislocation. You have a few options that can be used to help put it back where it belongs: A) Procedural sedation - the old standby. B) Intraarticular injection - some people love it, some hate it C) Relaxational maneuvers - sometimes feasible, and, last but not least D) Regional anesthesia - the new kid on the (nerve) block.

Ultrasound G.E.L.

Ultrasound G.E.L. – Inferior Vena Cava Collapsibility for Fluid Responsiveness

Ultrasound of the IVC is the people's volume responsiveness test. The idea is that you can non-invasively tell if a patient will benefit from getting more IV fluids. Everybody wants this to work so we can have a simple test to help us in critical situations. It is more reliable in mechanically ventilated patients with a fixed tidal volume but how about the non-intubated patient? Can we trust it?