by EMOttawa | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured
Case 3 A 54-year-old male presents with nausea and vomiting for 8 hours. He has had recurrent symptoms fo the past 3 months, but is currently asymptomatic in the ED. On your sonographic assessment you note that the patient did not have a positive sonographic...
by EMOttawa | Jan 9, 2020 | Featured
Case 7 A 34-year-old female presents with vomiting and epigastric pain for the past week, requiring antiemetic therapy at triage. On your sonographic assessment you note that she does NOT have a sonographic Murphy’s. ...
by EMOttawa | Jan 6, 2020 | Featured
Case 6 An 34-year-old female presents with vomiting for the past two weeks, and required analgesia for RUQ pain at triage. On your assessment, you note that the patient DOES have a positive sonographic Murphy’s sign. Please go to Gallbladder Case 6 to view the...
by Shannon Fernando | Sep 26, 2019 | Featured, Neurology
In the Emergency Department (ED) and Intensive Care Unit (ICU), we often encounter patients with brain injury. This includes patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI), subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH), and intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH), among others [1]. In the ED and...
by Michael Woo, Elizabeth Lalande, Shahbaz Syed | May 16, 2019 | Featured, Ultrasound
Sudden cardiac arrest represents a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Over 356,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) occur annually in the United States, with resuscitative efforts extending into the Emergency Department (ED)...