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Horizontal reverberation artifacts - A-lines are visualized as hyperechoic, horizontal artifacts at regular intervals deep to
artifacts - A-lines ... to the pleural line ... #Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #ALines #ALiEM
B-lines are visualized as hyperechoic vertical artifacts arising from the pleural line and extending off the
B-lines are visualized ... erasing the A-line ... #Clinical #EM #Radiology ... #PCC #POCUS #Lung ... #BLines #ALiEM
Capnocytophaga
Pathogen: Capnocytophaga
 • 9 species, C. canimorsus responsible for the majority of infections
 • Gram-negative rod,
9 species, C. canimorsus ... SIow growing, Long ... through animal bites ... specificity of PCR ... microbiology #zoonotic #infectiousdiseases
Premature Ventricular Complexes (PVC's) - Summary Framework

Why PVCs?  Can be the first manifestation of cardiac
Presyncope PVC ... Diagnosis: • PAC ... A PAC also has a ... more intensive treatment ... #differential #cardiology
Incidental Finding of Oleothorax - A chest radiograph showed a dense opacity in the upper area
area of the left lung ... her history of treatment ... oleothorax — a treatment ... #Clinical #PCC # ... Radiology #CXR #
Postpartum Hemorrhage - Differential Diagnosis and Management 
Uterine Atony (80%) - Most PPH Will respond to
respond to first line ... Methergine) 0.2 mg IM ... Hemabate) 250 mcg IM ... hand to gather POC ... unresponsive to usual treatment
Borrelia recurrentis on Peripheral Blood Smear
23M Somali refugee recently arrived w/severe abd pain, confusion and fever
12.5, WBC 14, Plt ... response occurs, new clones ... Treatment is tetracycline ... or PenG 800K U IM ... initiation of treatment