vanPOCUS: Peripheral IV Access
A guide for ultrasound guided peripheral venous access from Vancouver POCUS
Category Ultrasound Library
Ultrasound Case 105
A 22 year old man presents anxious he has noted a swelling in his scrotum. It is bigger when he stands up, and feels like a bag of worms.
POCUS Physics 2
Why Z is different from Zzzz, what you can see in a speculum, and how to tell if your tofu has been spiked.
Ultrasound Case 104
A 33 year old woman is hit in the left lower chest with a high speed hockey ball. She has moderate pain and some postural hypotension and tachycardia. FAST demonstrates a splenic laceration and rupture with free fluid, she has a CT and proceeds for embolisation.
Ultrasound Case 103 Fire and Brimstone
A 38 year old woman presents with midcycle LIF pain. It is colicky and you are asked to scan her pelvis. Ultrasound Top 100 Cases
Lung abscess
A previously healthy 22 year old man with a 4 week history. He describes the cough, some mild shortness of breath on exertion, purulent sputum, fevers, night sweats and weight loss.
POCUS Physics 101
The first vid in a series on ultrasound physics: featuring a Beluga whale, a game of blind man's buff, and Fourier analysis of a dog turd.
Lung point Case 005
This thin young man presented with left sided sharp chest pain worse on deep inspiration. You take a quick look on either side for pneumothorax. What do you see?
Lung Metastasis Case 002
A young patient with a history of malignant melanoma presents with shortness of breath. What do these clips show?
Lung Metastasis Case 001
A patient with a history of COPD / severe emphysema presents with weight loss, some pleuritic chest pain, and an exacerbation of their shortness of breath. What does this ultrasound clip demonstrate?
Pleural Effusion Case 001
A young patient with a history of sarcoma presents with shortness of breath. What does this clip show?
Empyema Case 1
A poorly kempt, chronic alcoholic with a history of intravenous drug use presents to ED. He is confused, febrile, tachycardic, tachypenoeic and hypoxic.