Blog Archive

2018

Chest Pain, Hypoxia, and Shock... Oh My!
August 01, 2018

All,

Welcome to the first CCM POCUS blog post for the new (2018-2019) academic year. For our new fellows, this blog is meant to be a way to share your POCUS experiences as a blog, highlighting interesting findings, cool…read more...

POCUS in a Condition A
April 10, 2018

This week’s case comes from Drs. Arshed and Mayr.

This is a 69 yo M, admitted for cabgx4, who’s post-operative course was complicated by heart failure (ef 30%) and new onset atrial fibrillation/flutter with RVR. Patient was started on…read more...

Hepatization?
April 02, 2018

Hey everyone!

This week, we have some clips from a patient Mohammad Hirzallah scanned in the NICU. The patient was noted to have R pleural effusion on CXR. Mohammad performed a POCUS exam and described interpreted it as showing…read more...

New Onset Seizures
January 29, 2018

Hey everyone!

We have a new blog post, courtesy of Aaron Skolnik and Kyra Christensen. They were providing care for a 59 y/o M who presented to the Neuro unit from an outside hospital for new onset seizures.…read more...

The "Eyes" have it!
January 10, 2018

Our new CCM POCUS Blog post comes courtesy of Dr. Matthew Niehaus and Lillian Emlet. They performed the scans & measurements on a patient who presented with altered mental status and found to have fulminant hepatic failure.

Questions…read more...

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