UltraRounds

Reading Time: 5 minutes The Pre-brief The venous side of the body’s circulation has long been overlooked and under-appreciated. Most clinicians focus on the…

Reading Time: 4 minutes Portal vein pulsatility index may be a good marker to distinguish hypervolemic and hypovolemic hyponatremia when the physical examination is inconclusive.

Reading Time: 4 minutes Pre-brief Lung ultrasound (LUS) has become an invaluable component of assessing patients in respiratory distress. B-lines have become one of…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief Apical nonobstructive cardiomyopathy ( Yamaguchi syndrome ) is rare in the US population. It’s important to differentiate it…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief If you don’t already know, I’ll tell you something fundamentally important to critical care and hemodynamics.  Doppler is…

Reading Time: 2 minutes The Pre-brief Sound waves, generated by the ultrasound transducer, are mostly longitudinal waves with alternating pressure deviations causing local compression…

Reading Time: < 1 minute References Abbas AE, Fortuin FD, Schiller NB, Appleton CP, Moreno CA, Lester SJ. A simple method for noninvasive estimation of…

Reading Time: < 1 minute PEER Reviewed by Dr. GK Singh PEER Reviewed by Dr. Korbin Haycock

Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pre-brief Case Presentation: A 35-year-old male with a recent history of  COVID-19 complicated by pulmonary embolism and cardiomyopathy requiring…

Reading Time: 4 minutes The Pre-brief Doppler is a tool used in ultrasound that measures the shifts in transmitted frequencies versus the detected return…