Category Echocardiography
Echo: Right ventricular function
Echo: Left ventricular systolic function
Echo: Pericardial effusion
Echo: Mitral regurgitation
Echo: Aortic regurgitation
shrouded shock…
the case. 46 year old male is bought into your resuscitation bay by local ambulance following a three metre fall from a work platform onto a horizontal metal railing below.
an insidious intruder…
the case. 28 year old male presents to your tertiary emergency department with chest pain, exertional dyspnoea and left calf pain.
going the wrong way…
the case. 56 year old male presents to ED with dyspnoea, cough and small-volume haemoptysis.
FALLS protocol…
Below is the main content discussed at an ultrasound workshop I ran this week at the Sydney HEMS Clinical Governance Day.
part man, part machine…
the case. 48 year old male is bought to the Emergency Department via ambulance following a syncopal episode. They are unable to obtain a blood pressure & describe ‘some sort of device coming out of his chest’ !!
two in two days…
I have recently prepared a lecture on a current, yet still controversial topic for work following exposure to these two interesting cases. Here are the cases & their discussion as well as the slide-show attached…