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Wooden Splinter Foreign Body on POCUS - Transverse View
Patient presents to our ED for 3rd opinion.
Wooden Splinter ... Has MRI scheduled ... FB can be seen on ... RJonesSonoEM #Wooden #Splinter ... clinical #ultrasound #FB
Wooden Splinter Foreign Body on POCUS
Patient presents to our ED for 3rd opinion. Cut arm with
Wooden Splinter ... Has MRI scheduled ... FB can be seen on ... RJonesSonoEM #Wooden #Splinter ... clinical #ultrasound #FB
Tinnitus - Subjective (heard only by patient) - 90% - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
Unilateral On Audiogram -
Differential Diagnosis Algorithm ... Audiogram - Perform MRI ... • Metabolic Causes ... Differential #Diagnosis #Algorithm ... #Causes
Restrictive Cardiomyopathy - Diagnosis and Causes
Clinical: Dyspnea, Exercise Intolerance, ↑ "Right Sided-Symptoms" (ascites, hepatomegaly, ↑↑peripheral edema)
Physical
Diagnosis and Causes ... Descents, Rales,+S4, MR ... Echocardiography, Cardiac MRI ... Cardiomyopathy #Diagnosis #Causes ... differential #cardiology #algorithm
Cauda Equina Syndrome Overview

Cauda Equina Syndrome:
 • Prevalence: 1:33,000-100,000 ppl/yr
 • Incidence: 1.5-3.4 million ppl/yr
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- Emergency Causes ... external anal sphincter ... Imaging studies: • MRI ... differential #diagnosis #causes
Algorithm regarding the diagnosis and treatment of Hereditary Hemochromatosis HH. 

Step 1: In the patient with
Algorithm regarding ... out additional causes ... If other causes ... liver biopsy or MRI ... hemochromatosis #algorithm
Septal Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HOCM)

52yo worsening exertional sx and murmur. EKG nonspecific, Serial trops (-) 
EM resident
Serial trops (-) EM ... elevated LVEDP ==> MRI ... plax #cardiology #pocus
The modified Sgarbossa Rule uses proportions to identify acute AMI in the setting of ST-elevations in
Sgarbossa Rule uses ... identify acute AMI ... indicative of acute MI ... #Diagnosis #EM
Bladder outlet obstruction (BOO)

Functional obstruction may be caused by detrusor-sphincter dyssynergia (DSD), either at the level
obstruction may be caused ... by detrusor-sphincter ... estimated on U/S, CT & MRI ... Other causes of ... neurogenic-based detrusor-sphincter
A blood test and/or 24 hour urine collection for the breakdown product of adrenaline & noradrenaline
performed (usually MRI ... In certain cases ... Pheo #Diagnosis #Algorithm