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3rd Winfocus Italian Congress, Bologna, Italy, 28–30 November 2009

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Real-time video transmission of ultrasound images to an iPhone

As point-of-care ultrasound spreads across the globe, there is an increased need for training and supervision of ultrasound studies. Real-time oversight is important, especially in critically ill patients, but...

Authors: Andrew S. Liteplo, Vicki E. Noble and Ben Attwood

Emergency ultrasound diagnosis of traumatic renal cyst rupture

Renal cyst rupture secondary to trauma is a rare occurrence. A case is reported of a ruptured renal cyst after a fall in a 79-year-old man with a history of multicystic kidney disease. The focused sonographic ...

Authors: Brooks Walsh, Darrell Sutijono and Christopher L. Moore

Emergency ultrasound diagnosis of a ruptured angiomyolipoma causing acute anemia

A 32-year-old female presented with acute, asymptomatic anemia. While vital signs and physical examination were stable and non-diagnostic, utilizing goal-directed bedside ultrasound, a perinephric hematoma con...

Authors: Darrell Sutijono, Caroline Pace and Christopher L. Moore

Rules for the road: an evidence-based approach to understanding diagnostic test performance of point-of-care ultrasound for pediatric abdominal emergencies

Authors: James W. Tsung

Spontaneous rupture of the renal pelvis due to an obstructing ureteral calculus diagnosed by point-of-care ultrasound

A 37-year-old man presented to the emergency department with left flank pain and vomiting. Bedside ultrasound performed by the treating emergency physician revealed left-sided hydronephrosis and perinephric fl...

Authors: Michael Benjamin Stone and Michael A. Secko

Point-of-care ultrasound diagnosis of SCFE

A 13-year-old boy presented to the emergency department with left knee pain after a fall. Initial radiographs were unremarkable, but the child returned to the emergency department 6 weeks later with persistent...

Authors: Michael B. Stone and Chameeka Barrett

5th Winfocus World Congress, Sydney, Australia, 4–6 September 2009

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The value of focused assessment with sonography in trauma examination for the need for operative intervention in blunt torso trauma: a rebuttal to “emergency ultrasound-based algorithms for diagnosing blunt abdominal trauma (review)”, from the Cochrane Collaboration

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews published a manuscript critical of the use of the FAST examination. The reference is Stengel D. Bauwens K. Sehouli J. Rademacher G. Mutze S. Ekkernkamp A. Porzsolt F...

Authors: Lawrence A. Melniker

Incarcerated obturator hernia: pitfalls in the application of ultrasound

To describe ultrasonographic appearance and diagnoses of incarcerated obturator hernia.

Authors: Masaaki Ogata

Ultrasound-guided foreign body localization and removal using a finder needle

The localization and removal of a superficial foreign body is a common challenge that emergency physicians encounter. The use of ultrasonography to detect superficial foreign bodies has been well documented, b...

Authors: Jonathan K. L. Mau, Mathew Nelson and Christopher Raio

Can emergency medical services personnel identify pneumothorax on focused ultrasound examinations?

Ultrasound is of proven accuracy in the diagnosis of pneumothorax. In certain locations, pre-hospital providers are adopting its use for the management of critically ill patients.

Authors: Christopher C. Raio, Veena Modayil, Michael Cassara, Mary Dubon, Jagruti Patel, Trupti Shah, Penelope Chun, Mathew Nelson, Gerardo Chiricolo, Andrew E. Sama and Yiju Teresa Liu

Ultrasonic evaluation of pupillary light reflex

Evaluation of pupillary light reflex (PLR) is an important neurological test with a variety of clinical applications. Obstacles such as severe soft tissue damage or hyphema may obstruct the visual access to th...

Authors: Ashot E. Sargsyan, Douglas R. Hamilton, Shannon L. Melton, David Amponsah, Nathan E. Marshall and Scott A. Dulchavsky

Ultrasound – a Revolution in the Making

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2nd Italian WINFOCUS Congress, Milan, Italy, 10–13 December 2008

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4th World Congress on Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 5–8 March 2008

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Ultrasonography in abdominal emergencies: quick and easy and safe decision making

Authors: Lucas Greiner

Bedside diagnosis of extensive aortic dissection

Acute aortic dissection (AAD) is a disease of relatively low incidence but very high mortality. Its presenting symptoms and signs are highly variable and frequently overlap with other less critical etiologies....

Authors: Sandeep Duggal, Matt Lyon and Michael Blaivas

GE Healthcare technology column for Critical Ultrasound Journal

Authors: Michael Blaivas

Evidence-based critical ultrasound: a mission possible

Authors: Mahmoud Elbarbary

Detection of lung atelectasis/consolidation by ultrasound in multiple trauma patients with mechanical ventilation

To evaluate the efficacy of bedside ultrasound in detecting lung atelectasis/consolidation in multiple trauma patients with mechanical ventilation.

Authors: Jian-xin Yang, Mao Zhang, Zhi-hai Liu, Li Ba, Jian-xin Gan and Shao-wen Xu

A new point of care ultrasound journal

Authors: Michael Blaivas

Ultrasound simulation of peripheral nerves: development of a novel technology for training in regional anaesthesia

Regarding education in ultrasound-guided regional anaesthesia, we aimed to develop three-dimensional ultrasound volumes (3D-UV) of peripheral nerves for ultrasound simulation. This study mainly addressed to es...

Authors: Raoul Breitkreutz, Sebastian Schellhaas, Thomas Schmitz-Rixen, Paul Kessler and Felix Walcher

An unusual presentation of a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm

The diagnosis of ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is often missed as a result of an unusual presentation, resulting in increased mortality. Here, we present an atypical presentation of ruptured AAA in ...

Authors: Adel Abdel Aziz and Nick Maskery