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Case # 1: A dyspneic man
Case of the month #1 is that of a 66 male previously “healthy” presenting with progressive dyspnea for several days. Findings are consistent with what diagnosis? Leave your answers or questions in the...
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Case # 2: A pain in the thigh
A 28 year old male presents with a painful right thigh. On exam you find a indurated, red area overlying the inguinal region of his right leg. He says it has been grumbling for some time with a few...
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Case # 3: Leg cramps
A 55 year old male presents to the emergency department with a 5 day history of increasing shortness of breath on exertion and recent leg “cramps”. In the 24 hours prior to presentation he had noticed...
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Case # 4: Post-op shortness of breath
By Rob Leeper, MD, FRCSC The Critical Care Outreach Team is called to asses a 64 year old male on the thoracic surgery floor complaining of increasing shortness of breath and hypotension. He is status...
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Case #5: What a difference a day makes
In this case you will see 2 echos from the same patient only 1 day apart. The patient had raging septic shock from a skin source and was requiring significant hemodynamic support. You can appreciate...
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Case #6 – ED TEE for Cardiac Arrest
In this case a sudden deterioration in the emergency department prompts a TTE which shows some concerning physiology. It is not until the TEE is inserted, however, that the culprit disease can be...
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In this case you will see 2 echos from the same patient only 1 day apart. The patient had raging septic shock from a skin source and was requiring significant hemodynamic support. You can appreciate...
View ArticleCase #6 – ED TEE for Cardiac Arrest
In this case a sudden deterioration in the emergency department prompts a TTE which shows some concerning physiology. It is not until the TEE is inserted, however, that the culprit disease can be...
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Clip of the Week: February 22nd, 2018
The COTW: A young male with a collagen-vascular disorder presents with shock. Here is one view from his POCUS, what do you think? Leave a comment below! Answer from Last week: This young man has a...
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Clip of the Week: April 3, 2018
Before we get to this week’s clip, I’d like to offer a brief congratulations to everyone who has completed the first step of their royal college examinations – including both of our current rotators...
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Clip of the Week: April 16, 2018
Happy Monday everyone! Welcome to your weekly dose of POCUS (last week replaced by ultra-rounds). Before we get into the case I’d like to welcome our POCUS rotators for the month: Paul Cameron a CCW...
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Clip of the Week: April 30, 2018
The Case: A 62M patient with ascites requires paracentesis. POCUS is performed to help landmark. What do you think of these images? Is there ascites present? Is this a safe location to perform...
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Clip of the Week: May 15, 2018
Welcome to our newest rotators: Ali AlHarbi, Mike Beyea, and Zainab AlDuhalib who will be providing you with COTW material for Block 12. The Case: Without any clinical context – can you guess what...
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Clip of the Week: June 5, 2018
The Clip-of-the-Week Returns this week after a short hiatus in May. To those of you who were worried, we’re sorry, and you can breathe a sigh of relief now because the POCUS cases will continue! The...
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Clip of the Week: June 14, 2018
CCW POCUS crew has been hard at work and would like to welcome this months’ rotators Dr. Kimberley Lewis, Mo Dairi, and Steve Roy. They will be providing some of the COTW cases over the next few weeks...
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Clip of the Week: June 18, 2018
This is it – My last COTW. Next week Dany Burke, and later Katie Wiskar will take over the COTWs, and though the writing may change the awesome sonography will stay the same!! Writing these COTWs and...
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Clip of the Week: June 25, 2018
I hope you all will join me in sending a huge shout out and thanks to Hailey Hobbs for the great COTW work and general POCUS awesomeness she’s given us over the last year. She’s leaving big shoes to...
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Case of the Week: July 18, 2018
Hi all, Happy Monday all. The best day of the week because it’s time for COTW! This week’s cases come from none other than the Donald (aka the POCUS POTUS) who was late for his meeting with the Queen...
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Case of the Week: July 23, 2018
Hi POCUS pros, Congrats to Les Bleus on a sweet World Cup win and on the soccer world for teaching us how to feign catastrophic illness severity (some of those collisions looked like they had an...
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Case of the Week: August 13, 2018
Happy Monday A-line Aficionados, The best week of the year is finally here, CRUS week! It’s time to see old friends, share some laughs and rediscover the pleasure of finding the costodiaphragmatic...
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