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• Case of the Week - Case # 89

  A 28-year-old male presents with chest pain after being struck in the chest with a baseball bat injury to his chest while playing ball. His vitals are BP 110/74, HR 118, RR 26, PO 93% on RA. You perform a bedside ultrasound…... Posted Aug 18 2008, 08:43 AM by Rob with | with no comments Filed under: Beginner, Intermediate, trauma, lung

• Case of the Week - Case # 70

  64-year-old male presents with fever and cough. He is being treated for bronchitis with doxycycline. He develops sudden-onset pleuritic pain after coughing and presents to the ED. His vitals are stable other than a heart rate of 118. You perform a thoracic ultrasound and note the following...... Posted Apr 05 2008, 03:24 PM by Rob with | with no comments Filed under: Intermediate, lung

• Case of the Week - Case # 62

  A 24-year-old male presents after having been stabbed to the anterior right hemithorax with a screwdriver. His vital signs are stable and his pulse ox is 95% on room air. You perform a FAST exam and note the following on the perihepatic window. ... Posted Feb 06 2008, 12:08 AM by Rob with | with no comments Filed under: FAST, Beginner, Intermediate, trauma, lung

• Case of the Week - Case # 54

  A 26-year-old male presents to the ED after a stab wound to the left chest. The patient has stable vital signs and has diminished breath sounds on the left but the patient is splinting due to pain. You and your resident perform a FAST exam and see no evidence of a pericardial effusion. During performance of a thoracic ultrasound for the detection of a pneumothorax, your resident comments that he sees a lung point. What is your interpretation?... Posted Dec 10 2007, 09:19 AM by Rob with | with no comments Filed under: Intermediate, trauma, lung

• Case of the Week - Case # 25

  26-year-old male with severe bullous lung disease presents to the ED with severe right sided pleuritic chest pain. His vitals are stable and he is not hypoxic. His upright CXR reveals the severe bullous disease but no obvious pneumothorax. You perform a thoracic ultrasound and note the following...... Posted May 02 2007, 01:40 AM by Rob with | with no comments Filed under: Beginner, Advanced, lung

• Clinical Case # 1

  A 32 y.o male presents after being stabbed in the R chest with a knife. He is hemodynamically stable and has symmetric breath sounds on exam. A chest x-ray cannot be immediately obtained...... Posted Nov 01 2006, 12:00 AM by Rob with | with no comments Filed under: FAST, Intermediate, trauma, lung