Young asthma patient with cough and fever, contact with COVID positive person. WBC and CRP in normal range. SARS-CoV-2 RNA negative. #POCUS is phantastic and sensitive, BUT not specific. #COVID19

Old patient found at home with dyspnea and pronounced subcutaneous emphysema. SpO2 85% with 15 L/min O2. After chest tube on the right side, CT scan with serial rib fractures. Geriatric patients still falling even in the #COVID19 pandemic. Christian H. Nickel #geriEM

Congratulations Monika! A good omen for board examination in Emergency Medicine in Switzerland!

Thank you for that. For english speakers a recent similar review was published in the European Journal of Ultrasound => thieme-connect.com/products/ejour… unfortunately not #FOAMed

This is the future of EM! Get involved; tag and share Shnetti Noemi Andrea Pawlik Bruno Minotti Wolf Hautz Alina Lampart T.Kaep Tom Sauter Tanja Birrenbach Tanja Grandinetti Senad Tabakovic Roland Bingisser - team🇨🇭

Regine Sauter NZZ Interessant! Leider ist das Hauptproblem die schwer Kranken, die auf ein Bett warten (und nicht Lappalien!). Professionalisierung ist dringend nötig. Facharzt Notfallmedizin jetzt! NZZ Regine Sauter SGNOR_SSMUS UniSpitalBaselCH Christian H. Nickel @GDK_CDS

Congratulations Netherlands! We will try to follow in 🇨🇭 tag SGNOR_SSMUS Senad Tabakovic Bruno Minotti Roland Bingisser Jolanda Oberle Shnetti #statusquobias #KlinischeNotfallmedizinjetzt

Tag SGNOR_SSMUS - still a painful reality.

What ist the aim of assessing pain in the Emergency Department? Providing analgesia to those patients who need it. Are multidimensional pain scales better than unidimensional pain scales to assess analgesic requirements in the ED? Christian H. Nickel #teamUSB link.springer.com/article/10.100…