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A Case Report of Acute Heart Failure Due to Infective Aortic Endocarditis Diagnosed by Point-of-care Ultrasound [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Introduction: Infective endocarditis (IE) is a life-threatening condition with significant morbidity and mortality, and can require surgical repair.Case Report: A 36-year-old man presented to the emergency department for worsening dyspnea and chest pain.
Gallagher, Ryan   +3 more
core  

Prevalence of Phantom Scanning in Cardiac Arrest and Trauma Resuscitations: The Scary Truth

open access: yesPOCUS Journal, 2023
Background: The prevalence of phantom scanning, or point of care ultrasound (POCUS) performed without saving images, has not been well studied. Phantom scanning can negatively affect patient care, reduce billed revenue, and can increase medicolegal ...
Zachary Boivin   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ultrasound Diagnosis of COVID-19: Robustness and Explainability [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2020
Diagnosis of COVID-19 at point of care is vital to the containment of the global pandemic. Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) provides rapid imagery of lungs to detect COVID-19 in patients in a repeatable and cost effective way. Previous work has used public datasets of POCUS videos to train an AI model for diagnosis that obtains high sensitivity. Due to
arxiv  

Effectiveness of Ultrasound-guided versus Landmark-based Glucocorticoid Injection in the Treatment of First Carpometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis

open access: yesPOCUS Journal, 2023
Background: Osteoarthritis is a debilitating degenerative disease more pronounced in elderly affecting many joints. The first carpometacarpal joint (CMC1) is commonly affected.
Shamma Al Nokhatha   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptive Few-Shot Learning PoC Ultrasound COVID-19 Diagnostic System [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2021
This paper presents a novel ultrasound imaging point-of-care (PoC) COVID-19 diagnostic system. The adaptive visual diagnostics utilize few-shot learning (FSL) to generate encoded disease state models that are stored and classified using a dictionary of knowns.
arxiv  

Venous Excess Ultrasound (VExUS) Grading to Assess Perioperative Fluid Status for Noncardiac Surgeries: a Prospective Observational Pilot Study

open access: yesPOCUS Journal, 2023
Objectives: Perioperative fluid administration impacts the rate of complications following surgery. VExUS grading system is a standardized point of care ultrasound (POCUS)-based, comprehensive method to assess volume status.
Justin Magin   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Automatic Feature Detection in Lung Ultrasound Images using Wavelet and Radon Transforms [PDF]

open access: yesarXiv, 2023
Objective: Lung ultrasonography is a significant advance toward a harmless lung imagery system. This work has investigated the automatic localization of diagnostically significant features in lung ultrasound pictures which are Pleural line, A-lines, and B-lines.
arxiv  

Comic Impossibilities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Argues for the controversial and initially counterintuitive thesis that theatrical magic (that is, the performance of conjuring tricks) is a form of standup ...
Leddington, Jason
core  

Can Untrained Patients Perform Their Own Skin and Soft Tissue Ultrasound Examination by Teleguidance?

open access: yesPOCUS Journal, 2023
Objectives: This pilot study aims to determine if patients untrained in performing ultrasound can self-scan to obtain images under remote clinician teleguidance during a simulated telehealth encounter.
Ammar Saati   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Utility of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Point-of-Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) has increasingly become a pivotal tool in emergency medicine, offering significant improvements in diagnostic accuracy and patient care.
Abdul Aziz Abdullah Al Tamimi   +6 more
core   +3 more sources

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