A 56 year old man presents to the Emergency department from another hospital for trauma assessment. Earlier that morning he had fallen off a roof and injured his chest and left hand. He has had 3 chest ultrasounds performed by 3 different operators and a pneumothorax was missed. It was [...]
We have added lung scans of patients with and without pneumothoraces. Test yourself! Pneumothorax/No pneumothorax 1. https://www.criticalcare-sonography.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Produce_101.mp4 Lung sliding. Shimmering beneath pleural line . No pneumothorax 2. https://www.criticalcare-sonography.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Produce_11.mp4 No lung sliding . No shimmering beneath pleural line . Pneumothorax 3. No [...]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto. You get a BAT call. A 25-year-old with acute asthma has had a cardiopulmonary arrest. He has been intubated by the paramedics and received 1 mg of adrenaline with return of circulation. He is arriving in 5 minutes. A resus team is organised and you [...]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto A 66 year old presents to the Emergency Department after a fall onto her right chest wall. She had slipped in her bedroom and landed backwards onto a cabinet in her bedroom . She is in great pain on arrival to ED. This is her [...]
