Mount Sinai Emergency Medicine Ultrasound

bringing technology to the bedside for improved patient care

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:

case 2 Case 2

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

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Phil On November - 25 - 2009 cases
Screen shot 2009 10 15 at 4.43.47 PM Up Close vs. Just Right

Fig 1. ED Point of Care Ultrasound

Question: What are you imaging?

Read the rest of this entry »

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?

subchor hemm 2 Case of the Month #1

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Phil On October - 15 - 2009 cases

appy 7 year old with abdominal pain7 year old child with abdominal pain presented with pain, nausea.  Noted to be febrile.  RLQ tender.  Linear transducer applied to point of maximal tenderness. 

 

Image attached was obtained.

 

Read the rest of this entry »

Posted by Phil On August - 21 - 2009 cases

Subscribe: to RSS or...

Image Databank

Right Diaphragmascites bowelVein tentingFem AVL comp +CFV DVT Longsubx2