Clinical Cases
Interesting Cases from Day-to-Day Practice
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...
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 ...