Lung ultrasound: COVID-19 cases
When is a COVID case not a COVID case? Lung ultrasound: COVID-19 cases with @thesonocave
Category Respiratory
CXR eponyms in pulmonary embolism
Eponymythology associated with chest X-ray signs in pulmonary embolus and pulmonary infarction. We review related eponyms, the person behind their origin, their relevance today, and modern terminology
Lotte Strauss
Lotte Strauss (1913–1985) was a German born, American practicing pathologist. Eponymous affiliation with Churg-Strauss Syndrome (CSS) in 1951. Now known as Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis (EGPA)
Churg–Strauss syndrome
Eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (EGPA) - archaic eponym: Churg–Strauss syndrome (CSS) or allergic granulomatosis
Louis Hamman
Louis Virgil Hamman (1877-1946) was an American physician. Credited for Hamman-Rich syndrome, Hamman Syndrome and Hamman sign.
They meant well
I am a doctor who questions a lot of medical dogma. Perhaps my own, somewhat sad medical story at least in part explains this oppositional personality trait. Valendar F Turner FRACS FACEM In 1950, when I was five years old,…
Searching for Smaug
The spontaneous tension pneumothorax...does it really exist?
Tension pneumothorax – time to change the old mantra?
ATMIST handover - 28 y/o male, injured 25 mins ago, penetrating chest trauma, Asherman seal anterior chest, RR 35, deteriorating, high flow O2 administered.
Tension Pneumothorax – an alternative view
Ever since being faced with a spontaneous tension pneumothorax at sea on a dived submarine...I have had an interest in managing pneumothorax.
Ultrasound Case 079
Presentation A previously well 49 year old man presents with chest pain. He is tachycardic, tachypneoic and hypoxic with blood pressure 110 He is 2 weeks post ankle surgery. Describe and interpret these scans
Lung Point Case 3
45 year old male presents with left sided chest pain after scuba diving. What does the ultrasound show? Tiny pneumothorax and lung point
Bedside Echo in Pulmonary Embolism
A 35 year-old female is brought to the emergency department after collapsing in a shopping centre. McConnell sign