Description
Overview
Emergency Department Ultrasound Case Studies Training Video is designed to review ultrasound characteristics and diagnostic criteria associated with pathology seen in the emergency medicine setting. A variety of case studies will be reviewed including abdominal, cardiac, lung, aorta, ocular, and GYN applications.
Topics
- Tachycardic Trauma Patient with Abdominal Pain
- Lt Sided Chest Pain w/ Inspiration after MVA
- Stab Wound Left Chest
- Syncope and Shortness of Breath
- Shortness of Breath and Chest Pain
- Cardiac Arrest
- Hypotension after Dialysis
- Syncope and Hypertension
- “My Hip Hurts”
- RUQ Pain
- Rising B-hCG Levels
- Loss of Vision in Right Eye
Objectives
- Identify evidence of cardiogenic shock, severe left ventricular dysfunction, cardiac tamponade, and pulmonary embolus.
- Estimate central venous pressure using inferior vena cava measurements.
- Demonstrate how to measure and evaluate an aortic aneurysm.
- Recognize features of a retinal detachment.
- Evaluate for free intraperitoneal fluid, pericardial effusion, and pneumothorax in a trauma patient.
- Look for evidence of ectopic pregnancy.
- Recognize findings consistent with acute cholecystitis.
Audience
Physicians, sonographers, and mid-level providers involved with performing ultrasound in an emergency and/or critical care setting. Physician participants may include (but are not limited to) emergency medicine, critical care, hospitalists, trauma surgery, internal medicine and primary care
