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If you have a POCUS QUESTION then use the hashtag #askpocus & tag us! We’ll retweet & try to find people with the answers.
But help needed from the senior twitter ultrasound enthusiasts! Please keep an eye on @askpocus & help answer all the queries!
For those of you who do subclavian lines, in your experience, does using ultrasound, therefore cannulating more distally (above 1st or 2nd rib) turn this procedure into a compressable site if bleeding complications occur? @nickmmark@PulmCrit@askpocus@critconcepts@IM_Crit_
Eustachian valve or Chiari network?
What's the best way to differentiate this between Eustachian valve vs. Chiari network? Any other views that would help?
@askpocus@jameshorowitzmd@zacksinger26#echofirst
A 26-yo 🤰G2P2 likes the convenience & reliability of an #IUD, but is apprehensive because her sister told her that having her IUD placed was horribly painful😬
🩺Review #POCUS results🤔 & read more on CaseStudy2👇https://t.co/NPrQbPqE4N #MedTwitter#Ultrasound#MedEd#askpocus
This is the PEA arrest... She had crepitus on exam overlying broken ribs... To me 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗔𝗜𝗥!
Woulde come other thoughts
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What tricks do you guys use to prevent a SC to IJ cannulation?
I was trying for so long to fix it, and eventually got fixed with someone's help to shrug the R shoulder to their ear and turn the head to the left to finally get it right.
How can this be done when alone?
🩺After routine copper IUD placement, a 38-yo🙎♀️has spotting & mild pelvic pain over the past month. Exam shows #IUD string is 4cm from cervical os. IUD was removed... Read more about CaseStudy#1👉https://t.co/NPrQbPqE4N #pocus#Ultrasound#MedTwitter#MedEd#askpocus#gynaecology
60 M with no known history admitted to ICU for cardiogenic shock and A fib w RVR. On BiPAP and CRRT. Also on levophed, dobutamine, and amiodarone.
Based on #VEXUS & #CriticalCareEcho, what do you think of preload and afterload?
#MedEd#POCUS#CriticalCare#echofirst@askpocus
60 F w PH on sild/riocig/maci here w/ resp failure w/ 🔼o2 req max HFNC. Cr 1.5 ➡️2.4, LFT ok, BNP 650, WBC 7. 1+ pitting edema. CXR w/ b/l L > R hazy opaacities + L pleural effusion. No R effusion. 2.6L tap w/ borderline exudate and improved o2 status. On abx. TTE + Vexus done
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80yo had COVID & was discharged. She says she felt good at 1st & is now tired & breathless. She is scared of returning to the hospital. More on CaseStudy2👉 https://t.co/u75BQfGdzg
#MedTwitter@askpocus#healthcare#Ultrasound#MedEd#PocusEducation#Pocus
@IM_Crit_ Are there any studies looking at PE likelihood combining basic heart POCUS, 2 or 3 point DVT ultrasound, lung ultrasound and Bayesian approach to probability?
65 F here w/ weakness, fevers, dyspnea, LE swelling. (+) UTI. 🔼trop/bnp. (+) pressors, on NIV.
Echogenic focus on AV noncoronary cusp a vegetation? If so, why's there no significant AI? Any other ways to distinguish what it is? @askpocus@load_dependent@EmergencyEcho@IM_Crit_
Top 10 #POCUS Papers of 2022
These are POCUS papers from the past year that caught our eye, with either a great clinical take-home, or an eye to the future of where #ultrasound is going
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