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Focused POCUS Lung and Cardiac Ultrasound Exams in COVID-19 Patients
1. Turn machine on / Enter patient
Focused POCUS Lung ... Select phased-array ... views of right lung ... and 4 views left lung ... #Focused #POCUS
Lung POCUS: Shred sign in patient with non-translobar consolidation. Phased array probe used.

Dr. Robert Jones @RJonesSonoEM

#ShredSign
Lung POCUS: Shred ... Phased array probe ... Consolidation #Pneumonia #Lung ... #POCUS #Pulmonary
Apical Approach Pericardiocentesis on POCUS Echocardiogram

Apical approach had best pocket + good distance away from lung
Pericardiocentesis on POCUS ... good distance away ... from lung edge. ... edge of phased array ... Pericardiocentesis #POCUS
Emergency Laryngectomy Management

This algorithm is paired with the red bed-head sign and indicates that the patient
have an upper airway ... continuity with the lungs ... conventional upper airway ... obstruct their airway ... ventilation is difficult
Tracheal Airway POCUS prior to anticipated difficult airway
1. ID cricothyroid membrane evaluation
2. Confirm tracheal intubation
3. Detect
Tracheal Airway ... POCUS prior to anticipated ... difficult airway ... by identifying lung ... #POCUS #trachea
Predicting an anatomically and/or physiologically challenging airway is not a straightforward task by any stretch of
physiologically challenging airway ... some existing difficult-airway ... prediction models only focus ... Heaven #Criteria #Difficult ... #Airway #RebelEM
Hyperacute Hypoxemia - Workup and Management
Differential Diagnosis: Aspiration, Flash Pulmonary Edema, Mucous Plugging, Bronchospasm, Pulmonary Embolism,
(JVP, edema), Lung ... Exam, POCUS (B-lines ... , lung sliding) ... Therapeutics: Airway
Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia (COP)

Cryptogenic Organizing Pneumonia Overview:
 • Idiopathic form of organizing pneumonia
 • formerly BOOP
of interstitial lung ... Diagnosis: • Lung ... TBNA or Surgical lung ... inflammatory debris-small airways ... : • CBC with diff
Air Bronchograms on Ultrasound

Opacification of alveolar spaces surrounding air-filled bronchioles; enables visualization of well-defined tissue/air interface;
continuity with central airways ... Static #Dynamic #POCUS ... #Clinical #Lung
Causes of Antibiotic Failure - Differential Diagnosis Framework
Diagnosis:
 • Non-Infectious: Malignant, Autoimmune, Drug-related (NMS, serotonin syndrome,
(daptomycin in lungs ... Secondary infection (C diff ... Difficile, COVID