A quick run through of #VExUS scan #POCUS #FOAMed #Nephpearls #FOAMcc

#ultrasound transducer movements, standard #POCUS terminology. #FOAMed #Nephpearls #MedEd

Nice little #VEXUS case illustrating the use of Portal Vein Doppler to track decongestion in patients with severe TR, as beautifully demonstrated in Eduardo R Argaiz's latest paper. 🧵 Patient with a Hx of HFpEF and moderate group 2 pHTN gets admitted with AKI and volume overload.

I really like this checklist as a framework to introducing #POCUS to a department or clinical group, as well as tracking how your program is doing "A Clinician's Guide to Implementation of POCUS in the Outpatient Practice" Josh Overgaard Bright Thilagar 🔗doi.org/10.1177/215013…

Good old #VExUS card #POCUS #FOAMed #Nephpearls

🚀 New Review Alert: POCUS for Diagnosis & Management in Heart Failure!🩺 👨‍⚕️Authors: Sabina Yampolsky; Alan Kwan; Susan Cheng; Ilan Kedan Read more: 👇🔗pocusjournal.com/article/16795/ #Cardiology #HeartFailure #POCUS #POCUSJournal #FOAMed #MedEd #ultrasound

🔴 ECG Interpretation Basics Quick Reference 🔹 Rhythm and Rate 🔹 QRS / Blocks 🔹 Intervals 🔹 Axis 🔹 Chambers 🔹 ST/T/Q (Ischemia) By Dr. Zaven Sargsyan Zaven Sargsyan #CardioEd #CardioTwitter #medtwitter #cvd #ecg #Medtwitter

July series for new #ICU #Nephrology fellows: Cardiac #POCUS parameters in the assessment of pulmonary hypertension #echofirst #FOAMed #Nephpearls Click 'ALT' for abbreviations Courtesy: 2022 ESC/ERS pulm HTN Guidelines

✅Acid Base Analysis 🧐

Bedside #POCUS during ward emergencies is associated with improved diagnosis and outcome. #FOAMed #FOAMcc 🔗 ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… (*lung point should correspond to abolished lung sliding arm of the figure)

Cardiac #POCUS parameters in the assessment of pulmonary hypertension #FOAMed #Nephpearls Click 'ALT' for abbreviations Courtesy: 2022 ESC/ERS pulm HTN Guidelines

Acid base help ABG help

🔴Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Screening for Proximal Lower Extremity DVT⤵️ 🔹Lower limb venous #anatomy for #DVT #POCUS 🔹jove.com/t/64601/point-… #Cardiology #FOAMed #MedEd #medstudent #paramedic #Cardiology #CardioEd #medtwitter #meded

Reason #678376 why #pocus is essential to good medicine: Chest X-rays are not reliable enough. This is a patient with known lung cancer who presented to a hospital with acutely worsening hypoxic respiratory failure. They have a known large right lung mass. CXR:

Using lung ultrasound to inspect the lung pleura can help differentiate types of pulmonary disease. In cardiogenic pulmonary edema, the lung pleura is smooth and regular with widely spaced B-lines. In contrast, with pulmonary fibrosis (seen here), the pleura is thickened and

In contrast, thickened and irregular pleura with subpleural consolidations or hypoechoic interruptions are seen with pneumonias, fibrosis, or acute respiratory distress syndrome. This was seen in a study of ARDS patients, for example, which found that: - 100% of patients with

For rales on auscultation, the odds ratio was 5.1. For orthopnea, the odds ratio was 6.9 For elevated NT-proBNP, the odds ratio was 14.3 For Multiple B-lines in multiple rib spaces with lung ultrasound, the odds ratio was an astounding 53.7! The sensitivity and specificity of

Enjoyed teaching teaching some #pocus guided procedures with the UNC Family Medicine residents!

🔍 Parasternal Long Axis (PLAX) View – vital for assessing LV function, valvular pathology, and effusions in dyspneic/shock patients; meta-analyses show 85-95% accuracy for EF estimation vs echo Expert annotated PLAX image 👇 Acquire PLAX like a pro! youtube.com/watch?v=2b0I2D… ⚡

Aside from the distinction between static and dynamic air bronchograms, the use of pulsatile color Doppler (lower scale for detecting lower velocities) suggests intrapulmonary shunts and pneumonia versus atelectasis. Nice article in the comments