Can implementing a POCUS protocol helps improve the work flow in the emergency department?
Pain from kidney stones is a common reason to come to the emergency department. Ultrasound has been shown to be a good first step in assessment - to determine the presence and degree of hydronephrosis.
Can you do POCUS to detect acute chest syndrome?
This article takes a look at using ultrasound to assess for successful reduction of adult patients with distal radius fractures.
Did you know that a single 5 cc saline push can likely confirm correct line placement?
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?
A Wild "Goose" Chase?
If you haven’t heard of speckle tracking on echocardiography - it is a pretty cool idea. So maybe this Speckle Tracking echocardiography (STE) would be of use as a point-of-care study to help identify patients that need more emergent revascularization when acute coronary syndrome is suspected.
