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The Benefits and Barriers of Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound in Primary Healthcare in the United States

Cureus, 2022
An effective healthcare system should embrace practices that enhance overall quality and productivity. Training primary care physicians in Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) has become part of the processes that improve the quality of patient care and ...
Keila G Carrera, G. Hassen, Génesis Camacho-Leon, Francis Rossitto, Franklin Martinez, Tadesse Debele   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Life‐Threatening Bradycardia in Anti‐NMDA‐Receptor Encephalitis and a Novel Use for Permanent Pacing

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric anti‐NMDA receptor encephalitis (pNMDARE) is an autoantibody‐mediated disorder that can cause severe autonomic dysfunction, including symptomatic bradycardia and asystole. Dysautonomia can last for years, making it very challenging to manage.
Sarah Tucker, Abhijit Das, Andres Jimenez, Areeba Basit, Yike Jiang, Emily A. Smitherman, Heather Van Mater, Taylor Howard, Alexander J. Sandweiss, Kristen S. Fisher   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of pulmonary edema: principles and practice [PDF]

, 2018
Pulmonary edema increasingly is recognized as a perioperative complication affecting outcome. Several risk factors have been identified, including those of cardiogenic origin, such as heart failure or excessive fluid administration, and those related to ...
Assaad, Sherif, Friedman, Malcolm B., Kratzert, Wolf B., Perrino, Albert, Shelley, Benjamin   +4 more
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Assessment of Skin in Patients With Systemic Sclerosis Using High‐Frequency Ultrasound and Shear Wave Elastography: A Comparative Study With Histology, Molecular, and Clinical Parameters

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Ultrasound (US) has been proposed as a potential tool for assessing skin fibrosis in systemic sclerosis (SSc). However, a large‐scale comparison of US‐based assessment with histologic markers of skin fibrosis has not been reported. We evaluated US‐based skin assessments for their face validity (differentiation between involved SSc and healthy
Ruhani Desai, Filemon Tan, Minghua Wu, Jeffery L. Browning, Samuel Theodore, Meng Zhang, Brian Skaug, Harshdeep Singh Chawla, Manmohan Singh, Salavat Aglyamov, Kirill V. Larin, Maureen Mayes, Shervin Assassi   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Point-of-care ultrasound reduces the impact on departmental radiology and echocardiography services: Results of 1-year service evaluation

Clinical Medicine
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is becoming an increasing part of the assessment and management of patients within internal medicine. There is ample evidence confirming the diagnostic accuracy of POCUS in acutely unwell patients, but very little focus ...
Abraham Simon, Maryam Nasim, Mohammad Chowdry, Shilpa Rajan, Ian Oldrieve, Nicholas Smallwood   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pseudogout Diagnosed By Point-of-care Ultrasound [PDF]

, 2019
A 71-year-old male presented to the emergency department (ED) for worsening right knee pain for the prior 3-4 weeks. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the right knee showed a pseudo-double contour sign.
Bulbin, David H., Halupa, Anthony J., Kraus, Chadd K., Strony, Robert J.   +3 more
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Point of care ultrasound as initial diagnostic tool in acute dyspnea patients in the emergency department of a tertiary care center: diagnostic accuracy study

International Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022
Background Dyspnea is one of the common symptoms patients present to the emergency department (ED). The broad spectrum of differentials often requires laboratory and radiological testing in addition to clinical evaluation, causing unnecessary delay ...
Himanshi Baid, Nagasubramanyam Vempalli, Subodh Kumar, Poonam Arora, R. Walia, U. Chauhan, Krishna Shukla, Aakash Verma, H. Chawang, Disha Agarwal   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Validation of the Pediatric Arthritis Ultrasound Scoring System for the Elbow, Wrist, and Finger Joints in Children With Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We aimed to validate the Pediatric Arthritis Ultrasound Scoring System (PAUSS) for upper extremity joints in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Methods Children with JIA were evaluated for elbow, wrist, or finger arthritis by clinical examination (CE) and musculoskeletal ultrasound (MSUS) with images scored according to the ...
Patricia Vega‐Fernandez, Pinar Ozge Avar‐Aydin, Kelly Rogers, Daniel J. Lovell, Jennifer Huggins, Alexei Grom, Hermine I. Brunner, Grant S. Schulert, Sheila T. Angeles‐Han, Mekibib Altaye, Amy Cassedy, Arthur B. Meyers, Tracy V. Ting   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Clinician’s Guide to the Implementation of Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in the Outpatient Practice

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a valuable clinical tool used at the patient bedside to rapidly assess a wide variety of symptoms and problems which would otherwise take hours or even days.
Joshua Overgaard, Bright P. Thilagar, M. N. Bhuiyan   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Point-of-care ultrasound in cardiorespiratory arrest (POCUS-CA): narrative review article

The Ultrasound Journal, 2021
The POCUS-CA (Point-of-care ultrasound in cardiac arrest) is a diagnostic tool in the Intensive Care Unit and Emergency Department setting. The literature indicates that in the patient in a cardiorespiratory arrest it can provide information of the ...
Diana Ávila-Reyes, Andrés O. Acevedo-Cardona, J. F. Gómez-González, D. R. Echeverry-Piedrahita, Mateo Aguirre-Flórez, Adrian Giraldo-Diaconeasa   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source