A blithesome beginning of the week my B-line chasing brethren (and sisteren?) Hopefully you've all returned home energized from the recent CRUS course and are ready to Make Artefacts Great Again! If you're still looking for a little extra inspiration, the COTW/COTG has you covered, so let's get down to business. The Case Our first case features a 69F admitted with SOB [...]
Happy Monday A-line Aficionados, The best week of the year is finally here, CRUS week! It's time to see old friends, share some laughs and rediscover the pleasure of finding the costodiaphragmatic angle in healthy volunteers. But for now, lube up it's COTW time! The Case Our COTW case comes from ED POCUS Pro Pedagogue Drew Thompson. It features a young gentleman with testicular cancer and a history of [...]
Hi POCUS pros, Congrats to Les Bleus on a sweet World Cup win and on the soccer world for teaching us how to feign catastrophic illness severity (some of those collisions looked like they had an Injury Severity Score of at least 76). But enough of that, let's get your week kicked off right with a healthy dose of cool POCUS cases from the [...]
Hi all, Happy Monday all. The best day of the week because it's time for COTW! This week's cases come from none other than the Donald (aka the POCUS POTUS) who was late for his meeting with the Queen acquiring these great scans. So blow past them old ladies to get a front row seat, it's POCUS time! The Case Our COTW features a tough [...]
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? [...]
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 [...]
