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Ensuring quality in point of care echocardiography
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Rational use of MSK PoCUS
Musculoskeletal point of care ultrasound (MSKPOCUS) holds potential to greatly improve patient outcomes. In order to develop a rational approach to its use, the clinician needs to be aware of multiple factors that influence its ability to do so. These factors include educational aspects relating ...
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Lung ultrasound is not a fishing expedition
Lung ultrasound(LUS) has rapidly gained favour in critical care setting, due in part to its safety profile, speed and convenience. We must guard against over-enthusiastic application leading to unconscious incompetence.
Lung ultrasound combines the interrogation of real pathologies (consolida... -
LV function
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To B or not to B - IS that the question?
B lines are at best a simple tool, and require intelligent use to perform at test characteristics reported by the more favourable meta-analyses. The aim of this talk is to discuss literature investigating B lines, and combine it with our own experience of the traps and caveats of B lines, to illu...
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Early pregnancy overview
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Should chest US supersede the supine CXR in trauma?
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Introducing US into the emergency department- tips, tricks and perils
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Basic Foetal assessment
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Ovarian cancer screening: Where are we at now?
Screening for ovarian cancer has been attempted since the late 1980's. Most studies have involved the use of clinical examination CA 125 estimation and serial ultrasound scans. Large trials where conducted in the United Kingdom and thus far there has been no statistical evidence that these have r...
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Point of care functional cardiac scanning
Patients in the neonatal intensive care often demonstrate clinical situations where hemodynamic compromise is common. Birth itself is the complex transition from placental blood flow to pulmonary blood flow as predominant provider of preload to the left heart, with redirection of blood flow over ...
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Echo by ED physicians ñ Case vignettes
Cardiovascular examination is traditionally performed exclusively with the use of a stethoscope since its invention nearly 200 years ago. Such a clinical examination is notoriously unreliable and doesn't always convey sufficient information regarding the structural and physiological integrity of ...
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Appendix techniques
Appendicitis remains the most common cause of acute abdomen requiring surgery. The clinical diagnosis could be challenging. Ultrasound (US) and computed tomography (CT) have been widely used as diagnostic tools for appendicitis. Unlike CT, US is usually readily available without ionizing radiatio...
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MSK Ultrasound in the Emergency setting
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General ultrasound examination in the shocked ED patient
General ultrasound examination in the shocked Emergency Department patient. Consider the setting and challenges facing emergency physicians. Ultrasound is an essential tool in this setting with considerations for level of training and expertise, credentialling, image storage and reporting.
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Dynamic left ventricular outflow obstruction
Dynamic Left Ventricular Outflow Obstruction utilises echocardiography to target issues between focusing on blood pressure versus flow
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RUQ - not the usual stones
RUQ pain ñ it's not always stones and cholecystitis! Patients presenting with RUQ pain can have all sorts of pathologies. An approach to a biliary tract ultrasound scan will be presented, along with sonographic features of various causes of RUQ pain. Tips will also be given on how to navigate yo...
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Ileus and obstruction
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BUCKLED: ultrasound in kids with distal upper limb fractures in the ED
Forearm fractures in children are a common presentation to the Emergency Department. Paediatric distal forearm fractures account for almost a third of all fractures in children, with a significant proportion of these diagnosed as buckle (torus) type fractures. These fractures are unique to childr...
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How can it help; how can it hinder
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Cardiac masses and vegetations
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Bowel pathology
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Advances in trauma ultrasound