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Horizontal reverberation artifacts - A-lines are visualized as hyperechoic, horizontal artifacts at regular intervals deep to
the near field #Clinical ... #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #ALines #ALiEM
DETROIT CARDIOGENIC SHOCK INITIATIVE ALGORITHM

INCLUSION CRITERIA
Acute Myocardial Infarction
 Ischemic Symptoms
 EKG and/or biomarker evidence of AMI
Infarction  Ischemic ... extremities, oliguria, lactic ... Fick calculated cardiac ... Angiography & PCI ... Initiative #Management #Cardiology
Pleural effusion visualized as an anechoic fluid collection located cephalad to the arrows. #Clinical #EM #Radiology
#Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... PleuralEffusion #ALiEM
A lobar consolidation located cephalad to the diaphragm. The branching, hyperechoic air bronchograms define this consolidation.
#Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... Sagittal #Pneumonia #ALiEM
Causes of Lactate Elevation, Lactic Acidosis - Differential Diagnosis

The most common causes of hyperlactatemia are usually:
, - regional ischemia ... - regional ischemia ... perfusion - Cardiac ... failure - Low cardiac ... - Mesenteric ischemia
B-lines are visualized as hyperechoic vertical artifacts arising from the pleural line and extending off the
A-line pattern #Clinical ... #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #BLines #ALiEM
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
exam Determine Cardiac ... history of: a) Ischemic ... Change in clinical ... one post op Cardiology ... postoperative cardiac
Cardiac LV Thrombus on Echocardiogram (A4C)
48 year old woman in ICU for acute ischemic limb. PMHx
year old woman in ICU ... for acute ischemic ... What are the next POCUS ... Echocardiogram #A4C #clinical ... #cardiology
Cardiac LV Thrombus on Echocardiogram Short-Axis View (PSAX)
48 year old woman in ICU for acute ischemic
year old woman in ICU ... for acute ischemic ... What are the next POCUS ... Echocardiogram #PSAX #clinical ... #cardiology
Echocardiogram of Ventricular Tachycardia while still being paced.

You're asked to emergently echo this patient who developed
arrest in the ICU ... after cardiac surgery ... PE, could be ischemia ... Tachycardia #VTach #POCUS ... #Paced #Clinical