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 [...]
