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How does POCUS help in evaluation of pneumonia?
An elderly lady is brought to your ED by ambulance after falling at home. She is hypotensive, tachypnoeic and agitated. She has a wound on her right shin with no active bleeding.
A male in his twenties presents to the ED complaining of haemoptysis following blunt thoracic trauma in sport. After an abnormal Chest X-Ray, his CT Chest reveals an interesting finding which surprises the Emergency Medicine and Cardiothoracic teams.
The baby looks well at first, nothing really worrying - but he has been crying for last 2 days, which is unusual for him. His mother`s concern leads us to a serious diagnosis.
A deep dive into POCUS safety principles.
A patient presents to the Emergency Department with a painful swollen knee. He cannot move his knee fully and has a fever.
A 55-year-old woman presents with acute left eye pain, blurred vision, redness, headache and halos around lights that started when she was watching TV in a dimly lit room.
A 2-year-old presents with a 10-day history of food refusal and vomiting, now with blood-stained vomitus. Chest X-ray reveals a button battery lodged in the distal oesophagus.
Young man with chronic cocaine use presents with painful hand swelling, worsening leg ulcers and a purpuric rash. Investigation shows raised inflammatory markers but no clear source of infection.