Rie Seu; Ariella Gartenberg; Rachel Mirsky; Aamir Bandagi; Nicole J. Leonard-Shiu; Reema Panjwani; Nora McNulty ;Trevor Dixon; Michelle A. Montenegro ; Michael Halperin – A 70-year-old man with a history of tobacco use, hypertension, nephrolithiasis, chronic systolic heart failure, and recent diagnosis of a 5 cm infrarenal AAA one-month prior presented to the emergency department (ED) with acute onset left flank and lower back pain for two weeks
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Case Report: Pediatric POCUS: 4 month old infant with a timely diagnosis
by Victor Istasy MD, FRCPC; Tim Lynch MD, FRCPC; Rodrick Lim, MD, FRCPC –
A healthy, four month-old female infant presented to a local emergency department with a 12-hour history of decreased activity, non-bilious vomiting and one episode of dark red blood in the stools. There was no history of fever. Telephone consultation was completed and the patient was transferred to a tertiary, pediatric centre for further evaluation. On arrival, the infant appeared pale and was lethargic during the exam.