I hope you all will join me in sending a huge shout out and thanks to Hailey Hobbs for the great COTW work and general POCUS awesomeness she's given us over the last year. She's leaving big shoes to fill and an even bigger hole in our hearts :'( Now, enough of the waterworks, on to the ultrasound. The Case: A 74 year old [...]
This is it - My last COTW. Next week Dany Burke, and later Katie Wiskar will take over the COTWs, and though the writing may change the awesome sonography will stay the same!! Writing these COTWs and showing off all of the great scans that we do here at Western has been one of the highlights of my year. Luckily I can still enjoy [...]
CCW POCUS crew has been hard at work and would like to welcome this months' rotators Dr. Kimberley Lewis, Mo Dairi, and Steve Roy. They will be providing some of the COTW cases over the next few weeks (we hope!). This weeks case comes from Drs. Fulan Cui and Scott Anderson. We'll leave the interpretation and critique of Andersons POCUS skills to you (but feel [...]
The Clip-of-the-Week Returns this week after a short hiatus in May. To those of you who were worried, we're sorry, and you can breathe a sigh of relief now because the POCUS cases will continue! The Case: This case comes from Zainab Al Duhalib, thanks Zainab for capturing the clip. Too much context would give it away, but I will tell you that the [...]
Welcome to our newest rotators: Ali AlHarbi, Mike Beyea, and Zainab AlDuhalib who will be providing you with COTW material for Block 12. The Case: Without any clinical context - can you guess what type of patient this clip might be from? What abnormalities can you spot? COTG: Same patient, what are we assessing for here? [...]
Rob Arntfield, MD, FRCPC and Atul Jaidka, MD, PGY2 takes us through the fundamentals of performing a transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). This video uses a live demonstration to introduce probe manipulation, how to obtain different views, and how to landmark for these different views. The techniques being presented will help you in performing goal-directed TEE in critically ill patients, whether it be for visualizing valvular [...]
The Case: A 62M patient with ascites requires paracentesis. POCUS is performed to help landmark. What do you think of these images? Is there ascites present? Is this a safe location to perform paracentesis? If not, why not? COTG: A patient post MVC with C-spine injury and tracheostomy. Here are an M-mode image and 2D clip of the diaphragm while on trach [...]
Happy Monday everyone! Welcome to your weekly dose of POCUS (last week replaced by ultra-rounds). Before we get into the case I'd like to welcome our POCUS rotators for the month: Paul Cameron a CCW PGY4, and Erica Beatty a PGY4 Emergency Medicine resident from Laval. I'd also like to Thank everyone who made it out to POCUS Jeopardy last Thursday! The Case: A [...]
Before we get to this week's clip, I'd like to offer a brief congratulations to everyone who has completed the first step of their royal college examinations - including both of our current rotators Alice and Fu. This week we have some ED-POCUS team curated content. Not sure who took the clip, but thanks ED team! The Case: A 42M (was probably just minding [...]
The COTW: A young male with a collagen-vascular disorder presents with shock. Here is one view from his POCUS, what do you think? Leave a comment below! Answer from Last week: This young man has a very broken looking heart, and it wasn't because his true love crushed him on Valentine's day - he has a dilated cardiomyopathy. Vince Lau, our POCUS alumnus and echo-aficionado [...]
