Clinical Cases
Interesting Cases from Day-to-Day Practice
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...
Case 49: ARDS
Kayhon Rabbani
A 22 year old male who has no past medical history presented with a 3 day history of viral URI-like symptoms with sore throat, dry cough, shortness of breath, and dyspnea on exertion...
Case 48: The Gut Feeling Was Right
Kanchi Mehta
A 38yo male with history of diverticulitis complicated by sepsis presented to the ED with lower quadrant abdominal pain. He noted that the pain started 2 weeks ago and became worse. He...
Case 47: Abdominal Wall Perforation
Cloie June Chiong
A 37 year old male with a past medical history of ulcerative colitis, now status-post total abdominal colectomy with a creation of end ileostomy, left-sided ureteral lysis due to ...
Case 46: Skin and Soft Tissue Infection
Alma Fregoso Leyva
73 year old male with a past medical history of coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, COPD, pulmonary fibrosis on 5L NC, and left lower extremity prosthetic joint in...