If you are starting echo/ultrasound - knowing the terminology for probe movements is so useful for both you and the person teaching you! #POCUS #FUSIC

🔑abnormalities on this cardiac #ultrasound? #POCUS #FOAMed #FOAMcc Source: doi - 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102339

Would YOU want someone slapping a possibly dirty probe on your skin for a nerve block (#EwwwNo)? Should we be using sterile sleeves? Read these 2 Daring Discourse articles in Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine and let us know where you stand! ASRA Pain Medicine Dr Amit Pawa💉🎙️ Ed Mariano, MD, MAS, FASA, FASRA 🇺🇸🇵🇭 Tanya 1/3

#JADEL Just dropped in CASE: Read details here: doi.org/10.1016/j.case… Where is this mass coming from? A. SVC B. IVC C. Pulmonary vein D. Extra-cardiac Follow thread for the amazing pathologic specimen! American Society of Echocardiography CV Case Journal

#JADEL Just dropped in CASE: 47M with antiphospholipid antibody syn & stroke; negative blood cultures: A. Infective endocarditis with HACEK B. Nonbacterial thrombotic endocarditis C. Tumor D. Congenital valve Read details here: doi.org/10.1016/j.case… American Society of Echocardiography CV Case Journal

Patient with hypotension & tachycardia on the ward. What's the major pathology shown and what treatment should be initiated? 🫀🫁 (see next for poll) #echofirst #medtwitter

Another exciting episode of Ultrasound Podcast with Martin Necas. Martin is sharing his awesome knowledge here: youtu.be/1-jX-UkM5v0

Rupture of the chords of the posterior leaflet of the mitral valve. Severe mitral regurgitation. M, 72 y.o.

Huge Aortic Pseudoaneurysm

#Nephpearls #POCUS #FOAMed LV Foreshortening occurs when the #ultrasound beam does not cut through the true apex of the LV but transects above & anterior of the true apex. It leads to a geometric distortion of the LV, making the apex look “rounded” instead of the normal

19 y/o pt,masses in arms,legs.Bx of ganglion reports high grade sarcoma. Thorax and abdomen CT adenomegaly,brain CT masses.TTE large mass (tumor) of malignant characteristics in LA,irregular border, widely invades the interatrial septum and posterior wall,anterior mitral annulus.

🧵 Here's a summary of my #CAEP24 Top 5 #POCUS Papers from 2023 talk #CAEP24 Saskatoon CAEP CAEP Emergency Ultrasound Committee

Kayla Furlong Gillian Sheppard with the ABLE ultrasound approach to geriatric patients. Ultrasound first covering the Abdomen, Blocks (if needed), Lung and Extras. Love this! #CAEP24 Saskatoon

Back to #VEXUS basics: Multi-organ venous congestion assessment by ultrasound includes inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter and pulse-wave Doppler of the hepatic, portal, and renal vein. Larger IVC and more abnormal flow patterns indicate worse venous congestion

Ashley Miller at #HR24 discusses shock physiology and management. Here are some of the take homes 👇 Hypotensive shock is either a pump vs. venular pressure problem 🫀 For any circulation, we need a pump and pipes. While we often think of arterial vessels for the pipes, it is

PDS pathophysiology #POCUS #FOAMed #FOAMcc Courtesy: World J Cardiol. 2019;11:282-291

Membrane in LVOT. Max.gradient - 30 mmHg. No symptoms. F, 26 y.o.

ePLAR: parameter to differentiate between pre & post-capillary pulmonary HTN. Essentially its a ratio of the #echofirst surrogates of pulmonary artery pressure & left atrial pressure. #POCUS #FOAMed #Nephpearls

A patient with progressive renal failure. Which spaces with effusion are seen?

Significant Pericardial Effusion. 3 months baby ❗ Today's case. We haven't figured out the reason for this yet.