Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

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Thanks to Eduardo Lacalle for his presentation of the Ultrasound case of the month yesterday at Elmhurst conference.  Here’s a quick summary.

29M BIBEMS after assault.  Intoxicated but awake and cooperative.  Only complains of right eye and right flank pain. Vital Signs are stable.  The patient has some superficial right periorbital abrasions.  He is tender in the right upper quadrant and the eFAST exam reveals the following images.

RUQ Trauma

RUQ Trauma 2

Is there anything of interest noted here?  What are your next steps?

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Posted by Phil On January - 7 - 2010 cases

54M with h/o HTN, DM, Tobacco and Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis presents with neck mass.  He looks dyspneic and uncomfortable at triage and has an obvious mass above his left clavicle to the degree that his head is tilted a bit to the right.  Concerned, the triage RN defers the EKG and A-Side attending consult and rolls the patient into your formerly mellow cardiac room shift.  Although overall he looks gaunt, his face is swollen and dark colored (“facial plethora”).  You go through your IV/O2/Monitor/ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRST and then grab the ultrasound machine.

After turning on the machine,  you obtain the following images of the left neck.

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Without Compression

compression

With Compression

What do you think the patient has and whatcha  going to do about it?

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Posted by Phil On December - 3 - 2009 cases

This 16 year old patient presents to the Emergency Department you have just started at in Menominee Michigan.   All of today’s patients have been on their way home this last day of hunting season.  You suspect this patient will be more interesting, as she is wearing a PETA shirt and not a shred of orange or leather.  Although her chief complaint was nausea and vomiting, her urine pregnancy test was positive, prompting the ultrasound evaluation which revealed this image:

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What is your diagnosis and what is the next step for this patient?

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Posted by Phil On November - 25 - 2009 cases
Too Close

Fig 1. ED Point of Care Ultrasound

Question: What are you imaging?

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Posted by Phil On October - 19 - 2009 cases

This young woman presents to your Emergency Department with a history of cramping, abdominal pain and vaginal bleeding today.

A urine pregnancy test is positive..  The following ultrasound image is obtained.  What do you tell the patient?

IUP with Subchorionic Hemorrhage

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Posted by Phil On October - 15 - 2009 cases

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