Alonso Marron, Michael S. Wolf, Marla Levine, Jeremy S. Boyd, Marta Hernanz-Schulman – The aim of this study was to investigate the role of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) as an alternative imaging modality to confirm the location of gastric and post-pyloric feeding tubes in patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This was a prospective descriptive study performed at a tertiary care children’s hospital.
Carl Kaplan; Raizada Vaid; Michael Secko – A 16-year-old girl without significant past medical history presents to the ED with RLQ abdominal pain for one day, radiating to the umbilicus. The pain was worse with right leg movement and walking – associated with one episode of non-bloody, non-bilious emesis.
Waseem Sous, George Limwado, Enoch Ndarama, Michaela Sous – Malignant cardiac tumors are quite rare, but portend a poor prognosis [1,2]. Early identification and classification are essential given their aggressive nature, particularly when metastases are present [3,4]. Clinical presentations are varied, and detection relies primarily on echocardiography.
Jina Bai, Todd Cutler – A 68-year-old man presented with one week of vague abdominal symptoms and was found to have new ascites and pulmonary embolism for which a heparin drip was initiated. We report a case diagnosing hemoperitoneum with point of care ultrasound (POCUS).
Fan J. Yang, MD; Brian Kohen, MD; Sowmya Sanapala, MD; Michael Halperin, MD MPH – It is estimated that 20 million people in the United States have gallbladder disease. Of the patients who present to the Emergency Department (ED) with abdominal pain, 3-10% have acute cholecystitis.