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Focus on POCUS: Heartbreaker. Cardiac Echo in the ED.

Focus on POCUS: Heartbreaker. Cardiac Echo in the ED.

by Robert Suttie, Brandon Ritcey | Dec 7, 2017 | Cardiology, Featured, Ultrasound

For other ultrasound focused cases please see our Ultrasound Archives.  A woman in her 60’s presents to the emergency department on her 7th post-operative day feeling nauseous, vomiting, weak and dizzy. She has just recently underwent a open left hemi-colectomy,...
Focus on POCUS: Ultrasound in undifferentiated shock

Focus on POCUS: Ultrasound in undifferentiated shock

by Michael Wong, Brandon Ritcey, Shahbaz Syed | Sep 21, 2017 | Featured, Ultrasound

A female in her 70s from a nursing home with a past medical history of dementia, obesity, COPD, and CHF presents to the emergency department with a decreased level of consciousness and shortness of breath. Seven days ago she was assessed in the ER with a diagnosis of...
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