by Alie Wudwud | Aug 22, 2024 | Critical Care, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Radiology, Respirology, Resuscitation
Assessing patients with pleural effusions in the emergency department (ED) can be challenging and nuanced. This is largely due to the lack of guidelines around pleural effusions in the ED. In part one we focused on imaging, diagnosis, and management of parapneumonic...
by Maria Doubova, Rory Connolly | Jun 20, 2024 | Featured, Infectious Disease, Radiology, Surgery, Ultrasound
This case report demonstrates the utility of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) to identify complicated gallbladder disease. In this case, the patient presented with abdominal pain and a known history of cholelithiasis. POCUS demonstrated signs of small bowel...
by Nathaniel Murray, Mathieu McKinnon | Apr 4, 2024 | cardiac arrest, Cardiology, emergency, Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Infectious Disease, Infectious Disease, Radiology, Surgery, Thrombosis, Trauma, Ultrasound
Point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is becoming a cornerstone tool in our assessment of patient presentations and is helping us guide our clinical management. This is also represented in the amount of literature that has been published on the use of PoCUS in 2023. In...
by Julie Ingratta, Hans Rosenberg, Jeff Perry | Oct 30, 2023 | Journal Club, Radiology
Methodology: 1.5/5 Usefulness: 1.5/5 Loke DE, et al. CJEM. 2022 Mar;24(2):206-213. Question and Methods: Trying to quantify gender disparities in CT turnaround time and ED LOS and determine if intervention in the form of protocolized point-of -care pregnancy testing...
by Patrick Fisk, Hans Rosenberg, Ian Stiell | Oct 3, 2022 | Full Article, Journal Club, Radiology, Ultrasound
Tonson la Tour A, et al. Acad Emerg Med. 2021 Aug;28(8):866-872. Methodology: 3/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Question and Methods: This prospective cohort study tried to identify whether PoCUS can be used to diagnose intussusception by emergency department physicians. Findings:...
by Zach MacDonald, Lucy Karp | Dec 9, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Orthopedics, Orthopedics, Radiology, Trauma, Ultrasound
Shoulder dislocations are the most common large joint dislocation encountered by emergency physicians. Given their incidence in the emergency department, managing shoulder dislocations efficiently is key to departmental flow.` Recently, Dowson et al.1 utilized a...
by Evelyn Tran, Alie Wudwud | Feb 18, 2021 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Radiology
Cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) is a thrombotic disease of the cerebral veins and major dural sinuses. It is a rare kind of venous thromboembolism and can also be thought of as a type of stroke. CVT accounts for 0.5-1% of stroke cases. The annual incidence is 0.2 –...
by Michael Hale, Kate O'Connell | Nov 5, 2020 | Featured, Grand Round Summaries, Neurosurgery, Radiology
The diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) carries with it remarkable morbidity and mortality. Case fatality rates approach 50% 1,2 Of those who survive, half will experience chronic disability and a significant reduction in health-related quality of...
by Hans Rosenberg | Jul 6, 2020 | cardiac arrest, Critical Care, Journal Club, Radiology, Resuscitation, Ultrasound
Methodology: 2.5/5 Usefulness: 3/5 Daley JI, et al. Acad Emerg Med 26 (11), 1211-1220 Nov 2019 Questions and methods: In patients with abnormal vital signs, what is the sensitivity of FOCUS for the diagnosis of PE? Prospective, multicenter, observational...
by Hans Rosenberg | Sep 30, 2019 | Journal Club, Radiology, Trauma
Methodology: 2/5 Usefulness: 2.5/5 Macri F, Greffier J, Khasanova E, Claret PG, Bastide S, Larbi A, Bobbia X, Pereira FR, de la Coussaye JE, Beregi JP. Ann Emerg Med. 2019 Jun;73(6):665-670. Question and Methods: This 160-patient pilot study prospectively compared...
