Tag: PE
Why I prefer LOOKING at hearts
Seriously, if you haven’t yet learned how to LOOK at hearts with bedside ultrasound you are doing your patients a disservice. The amount of critical information you are likely missing with auscultation is scary. I saw a 48 year old female currently receiving chemotherapy via portacath for metastatic colon CA. Presents in the middle of […]
Huge save in a patient with neck swelling
Dr. Joel Turner , the fellowship director in Emergency Medicine Ultrasound in McGill’s department of Emergency Medicine at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal presents the following case. If this doesn’t make you reach for your ultrasound probe, nothing will! 55 year old female sent to the ED because of progressive, non-traumatic swelling of the […]
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