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Empyema on Lung on Point of Care Ultrasound

Don't be fooled by empyema masquerading as liver! 

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Empyema on Lung ... on Point of Care ... #Lung #pulmonary ... #clinical #ultrasound ... #pocus #hepatized
False Positive Lung Point on POCUS
Lung-Cardiac Point and Lung-Diaphragm Point
These images highlight selected differentials to pleural
Point on POCUS ... Lung-Cardiac Point ... #clinical #lungcardiac ... lungdiaphragam #ultrasound #pulmonary ... #differential #diagnosis
Interventional bronchoscopic and surgical treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Overview of various therapies used
chronic obstructive pulmonary ... with COPD and emphysema ... are approved for clinical ... EBV: endobronchial ... #Management #AdvancedCOPD
Empyema Necessitans (EN) on Chest POCUS

Pulmonary teaching case: you are called to the bedside of a
Pulmonary teaching ... - What’s the diagnosis ... Necessitans #EN #Chest #clinical ... pulmonary #respiratory ... #Chest #Lung
Pyothorax on Lung on Point of Care Ultrasound

POCUS helped to identify pyothorax in this unstable patient
Pyothorax on Lung ... on Point of Care ... #pyothorax #empyema ... #Lung #pulmonary ... #clinical #ultrasound
Basics of Waveform Capnography
Waveform capnography assesses ventilation by monitoring exhaled carbon dioxide
Can use measurement and morphology
pathophysiology CLINICAL ... mismatch • ß-AngIe ... air trapping • EMPHYSEMA ... the heart to the lung ... interpretation #patterns #diagnosis
Preoperative Risk Evaluation

Major Pre-Op Questions:
1. Does the patient have any modifiable risk factors that could be
Change in clinical ... Unstable Angina ... unless prior heart/lung ... medical and surgical management ... stratification #diagnosis
Lung sliding & pneumonia on POCUS
The differential diagnosis for absence of lung sliding includes pneumonia; however,
on POCUS The differential ... diagnosis for absence ... aeration to the point ... #clinical #ultrasound ... #pulmonary #mimics
Authors: Mark M. Ramzy, DO, EMT-P (@MarkRamzyDO, EM Resident Physician, Drexel University, Department of Emergency Medicine)
There is point tenderness ... This patient’s clinical ... exam findings and clinical ... of breath and point ... Radiology #CTChest #Lung
Mycoses

HISTOPLASMOSIS
• Inhalation of conidia → Yeast → travel to lymph nodes → spread in body
• Bird
has five major clinical ... fungal stain of clinical ... change in the lungs ... nails, bronchi, lungs ... #Management #Infections