Ultrasound-Guided Hematoma Block
How ultrasound can help you win your fantasy football championship
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Transesophageal Echocardiography in Cardiac Arrest
What if there was a way to better visualize the heart during cardiac arrest? What if you could see something on the ultrasound screen that triggered a specific, critical, and time-sensitive intervention?
According to the 2008 ACEP Ultrasound Guidelines, as well as Matt and Mike from the Ultrasound podcast, that emerging emergency ultrasound application is…
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Ultrasound for Lumbar Puncture: how to maximize first-pass success in patients with large body habitus
Locate the best site for needle insertion, demonstrate the appropriate angle of insertion, and measure the distance to reach the subarachnoid space.
Ultrasound for Small Bowel Obstruction
Editor’s note: This article was listed in EM Curious’ #FOAMed Review 19th Ed.
Quicker diagnosis (vs waiting for CT), quicker treatment (IVF, NG tube, surgery), and earlier consult/admission to Surgical team. Everyone benefits: ED flow, overburdened nurses, other patients requiring attention in the ED, and most of all, the patient himself.
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Ultrasound for Pediatric Skull Fractures
Diagnose important traumatic injuries quickly, avoid unnecessary ionizing radiation in kids, and do so with an extremely easy ultrasound application to learn.
Moreover, skull fracture found to be more predictive than scalp swelling or vomiting for traumatic brain injury, increasing likelihood by 4-fold to 20-fold.
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Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis in Pediatric Population
Etiologies, Clinical Course, Diagnosis, Management…and ED PEARLS
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CT Versus Ultrasound for Kidney Stones
Diagnose your patients faster, improve ED flow, and avoid unnecessary ionizing radiation,
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Spinal Epidural Abscess
“Once the classic symptoms appear and a definitive diagnosis is made, the very symptoms we look for have often become irreversible”
- Spinal epidural abscess is an extremely rare diagnosis but a potentially devastating one.
- It has proven to be a difficult ER diagnosis.
- Unfortunately, once the classic symptoms appear and a definitive diagnosis is made, the very symptoms we look for have often become irreversible.
- How can we change the way we evaluate for SEA in order to minimize diagnostic delay and thereby decrease morbidity/mortality?
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