UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound

The official twitter account of the UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound Division. #FOAMed #FOAMus #SonoSquirrel
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[UTSW EM @DallasEMed]

Celebration season!! Let’s congratulate our R3s on securing a spot for fellowship! 🎉🙌 #FutureFellows @emresidents @UTSW_EM @UMichiganEM @AlamoCityEM @IUSM_EM

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Excited to to have matched Dr. Benjamin Monge from @OakHillEM for Clinical Ultrasound Fellowship!
Congrats to everyone! Let's go!
@UTSW_EM

[UTSW EM @DallasEMed]

Excited to announce our 2024-2025 Chief Residents!!!!!! @UTSW_EM #DallasEM

[UTSW EM @DallasEMed]

Welcome to Dallas!! So excited to introduce our newest 26 family members...see y'all soon 🤠 🌵 #Match2024 #SAEMMatch #DallasEM

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

@JSinghDO Grateful to be able to teach an amazing Emergency Physician and skilled sonographer @JSinghDO

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Great catch by one of our awesome interns @peetahyun
Patient with painless hematuria. See thickened bladder with bladder mass and large bladder stone with posterior shadowing.
Amazing job Dr. Yun!
#ComeScanWithUS
@DallasEMed

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Amazing gallbladder by one of our fantastic interns @Abigail_Bailey3
See the contracted gallbladder around many stones with posterior shadowing. Also see small bowel adjacent.
Great job Dr. Bailey!
#ComeScanWithUS
@DallasEMed

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Great subxyphoid by @JasonVadhan
No PCE but great pick up of both FF and a right sided PLE. Nice job Dr. Vadhan!
#whydallasem
@DallasEMed

[UTSW Emergency Medicine @UTSW_EM]

A very fitting announcement for #WomenPhysiciansDay. Congrats to Drs. Kulstad and Nillas on this recognition! 🥳

[UTSW Emergency Medicine @UTSW_EM]

Dr. Andino recently became the first annual recipient of the Dr. Terry Rustin Early Career Physician Travel Award to attend the @ASAMorg Annual Meeting in April! Congrats to Dr. Andino on this recognition 🥳

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Here's the long axis view

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Check out this intramuscular abscess performed by Dr. Haley Musgrave
- Look for the sonographic fluctuance!
#POCUSFirst
#ComeScanWithUS

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Use POCUS for all of your suspected bowel obstructions
Look for:
- Dilated bowel
- To and Fro movement of intraluminal contents
- Lack of peristalsis
- FF and bowel wall edema

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

3. D. The first image showed poor diaphragmatic excursion of the left lung because the ETT was in the right main stem. Here is what good diaphragmatic excursion looks like after pulling the ETT back!

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Board review!
1. Compared to a chronic thrombus, an acute DVT has which of the following features?

a. More ragged edges
b. Centrally located
c. Hyperechoic
d. Adhered to the walls of the vein

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

2. E. All of the above. Besides seeing a dissection flap, these other findings can clue you in to finding an aortic dissection!

[UT Southwestern EM Ultrasound @DallasSono]

Having a hard time palpating the cricothyroid membrane (CTM)? Use POCUS to quickly identify the CTM and reduce the chances of airway injury! Below are the steps to find it! #FOAMed #sonohack #ComeScanWithUs @DallasEMed @UTSW_EM @PhilipsPOCUS