Images and Text Genevieve Carbonatto Tracheal intubation Ultrasound can be used as an adjunct to directly visualising endotracheal tube placement. The linear probe is placed in the transverse position with the index marker pointing to the right on the neck above the sternal notch. The structures are identified. These include the trachea and the oeseophagus. Read more about Oesophageal intubation : Double tract sign[…]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto A 54 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with abdominal pain and jaundice. He has a distended abdomen. He is known to have alcoholic cirrhosis. A point of care ultrasound was performed. The following demonstrates some of the basic features of cirrhosis with ultrasound. Liver size, increased echogenicity Read more about Alcoholic cirrhosis[…]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto A 56 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with chest pain. This is his ECG The ECG shows deep Q waves and ST elevation in his anteroseptal leads These are his vital signs: BP 120/69 mmHg, HR 89/min, Sats 100% on RA, RR16/min This is his ECHO PLAX Read more about LV Aneurysm[…]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto An abdominal ultrasound is performed on a young woman for right upper quadrant pain. This is what is seen while scanning through the liver This is a cavernous haemangioma. It looks like a snowball on ultrasound. Characteristics of haemangiomas: Blood filled cavernous space lined with a single layer of flat Read more about Cavernous haemangioma[…]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto A 35 year old man presents to the Emergency Department with severe shortness of breath. He is known to have an amphetamine induced cardiomyopathy. His heart rate is 129/min, BP 116/76. He has mild pedal oedema. His JVP is elevated and on auscultation he has crepitations bilaterally. You decide to Read more about Right ventricular thrombus[…]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto A 55 year old man with bilateral renal transplants and diabetes presents to the Emergency department with a 6 day history of right upper quadrant pain and severe back pain, fever, diarrhea, nausea and vomiting. On examination his HR is 95/min. He has a systolic BP of 97, and he Read more about Emphysematous kidney[…]
Images and text Genevieve Carbonatto It is a busy Thursday evening in the Emergency Department. There is no place to put patients and assess them. The only bay which may be available is occupied by a lady who refuses to leave the bay because she feels so ill. You call the nurses and together you Read more about Pitfall: Blood clots and ruptured ectopic pregnancy[…]
Images Mark Russel, text Genevieve Carbonatto A 35 year old women presents to the Emergency Department for a review of a possible ectopic pregnancy. She is 7 weeks pregnant by dates. An outpatient scan was performed the day before for painless vaginal bleeding . It did not show an intrauterine gestational sac. A complex left Read more about Pitfall: Painless ruptured ectopic pregnancy[…]
Text and images Genevieve Carbonatto Pericardial effusions are commonplace. A pericardial effusion is not synonomous with pericardial tamponade. Pericardial tamponade is a medical emergency characterised by shock and associated with a number of clinical criteria including Becks triad (hypotension, decreased heart sounds, elevated JVP) pulsus paradoxus ( > 12 mmHg drop in BP on inspiration), Read more about Assessment of Pericardial effusion[…]
Images Ying Ying Lee, text Genevieve Carbonatto A 44 year old man presents with acute right upper quadrant pain. A point of care ultrasound is performed to exclude a biliary cause. While scanning the patient in the supine position, stones are visible in the body of the GB which do not move when the patient Read more about Pitfall – Stones in the gall bladder – Adenomyomatosis[…]