Clinical Cases
Interesting Cases from Day-to-Day Practice
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...
Case 45: Distal Both Bone Fracture
Teini Elisara
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An 82 year old female with a past medical history of anemia of chronic disease, breast cancer, diabetes mellitus, hypertension, osteoporosis, rectal adenocarcinoma, scleroderm...
Case 44: Interscalene Nerve Block for Shoulder Dislocation
Josh Gieschen
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32yo male with no PMH who presents following a fall down the stairs with no head strike or loss of consciousness. He endorses left shoulder pain and inability to range his le...
Case 43: Shortness of Breath
Molly Chou
An 83-year-old male presented to our emergency department with shortness of breath. He woke up that morning with symptoms and called EMS. On arrival, the patient was alert and oriented w...
Case 42: Nephrolithiasis
Alex Liang, Rachna Subramony
A 48 year old male with past medical history of Crohn’s Disease, cryptogenic cirrhosis, pancytopenia, portal vein thrombosis, Factor V Leiden, and prior history of kidn...