Medical Specialty

Ultrasound Case 040

by Dr James Rippey, last update December 31, 2018

A 22 year old man presents with abdominal pain and diarrhoea. He has 3 months of intermittent diarrhoea sometimes with blood, accompanied with weight loss and abdominal discomfort.

CXR Essentials: Types of atelectasis

by Sabrine Elkhodr, last update January 3, 2019

video helps you classify and identify different types of atelectasis on Chest X-ray. Atelectasis defined as reduced inflation of all, or part, of the lung.

Ultrasound Case 017

by Dr James Rippey, last update December 20, 2018

A 23 year old woman presents with right sided pelvic pain and vaginal spotting. Her last period was 6 or 7 weeks ago and her urinary BHCG is positive. You perform a transvaginal ultrasound.

Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov

by Dr Ilya Chernyshev, last update January 10, 2019

Dmitry Alekseyevich Arapov (Дмитрий Алексеевич Арапов) (1897 – 1984) was a Russian military surgeon. Arapov contracture in appendicitis

Dislocated? Put your shoulder into it!

by Justin Hensley, MD, last update January 16, 2019

Shoulder dislocations. Few procedures are more fulfilling in the emergency department. A little intra-articular lidocaine, some ketamine (always the answer), some propofol, and you’ve nearly instantaneously fixed a painful condition. Thankfully we’ve moved on from the barbaric techniques pictured below. But this blog isn’t about reducing a shoulder in the emergency department using procedural sedation. […]