Clinical Cases
Interesting Cases from Day-to-Day Practice
Case 60: A Stubborn Sore Throat: Insights through Ultrasound
Sneha Thandra, Anthony Medak
Case: A 19 year old female with a history of palpitations, shortness of breath, and syncope presents to the ED with throat pain with swelling for 3 weeks. The pain was ...
Case 59: Abdominal and Pelvic Pain
Eli Tran, Elaine Yu
20YO female presented to the emergency department with 4-5 days of pelvic/abdominal pain, with abrupt worsening one day prior while resting. Her pain was sharp, sudden, and impr...
Case 58: Large Volume Paracentesis
Angela Wang, Benjamin LiottaA 66-year old male with a longstanding history of alcoholic cirrhosis presents to the ED early in the morning requesting a paracentesis with 10 days of worsening abdominal ...
Case 57: Positional Vertigo in the ED With Incidental Interatrial Shunt on Bubble Study
Carmon Controy, Akash Desai
44 y.o. male, brought by EMS from an outpatient procedure suite after sudden onset vertigo and gait instability following a right TMJ/ CNIII V3 injection. Patient experi...
Case 56: Udderly Blinded: A Case of Chronic Ocular Trauma Unmasked by POCUS
Martin Day, Elaine Yu
A 69-year-old male with no significant past medical history presented to the emergency department after striking his right eye with the handle of a spray hose at work. He repo...
Case 54: Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Polycystic Kidney Disease with Hepatic Involvement
EJ Curtis, Colleen Sweeney, Colleen Campbell
A 70-year-old man with a past medical history of hypertension, obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, atrial fibrillation status-post Watchman procedu...
Case 53: Forgo the CT Scan: Utilization of Ultrasound In Conjunction With Clinical Tools In Diagnosing Acute Appendicitis
Jeremy Santiago, Anthony Medak
77-year-old female with a past medical history of diabetes mellitus and rheumatoid arthritis presented to the emergency department with 2 days of abdominal pain. Pt r...
Case 52: The Role of FAST in Penetrating Thoracoabdominal Injury
Brandon Woo, Elaine Yu
A 28 year old male with unknown past medical history presented to the emergency department with a single gunshot wound sustained to the anterior chest just prior to arrival. ...
Case 51: Utility of the Spine Sign in Detecting Pleural Effusion on POCUS
John Hermez
A 74 year-old male with a past medical history of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer complicated by cauda equina necessitating laminectomy decompression, chronic RLE DVT on...
Case 50: Ventral Hernia Pain
Bradley Phillips
A 47-year-old female with a medical history of right nephrectomy complicated by incisional “Swiss cheese” ventral hernias with recurrent incarceration and bowel strangulation prese...