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It Is Always Early with Point-of-Care Ultrasound

A 56-year-old male was admitted to the emergency department for acute pulmonary edema and septic shock, yet no clear source of infection was noted upon physical examination. Due to his unstable condition, bedside ultrasound was performed. A heterogeneous mass in the liver was noted; hence, a tentati...

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Autores principales: Bitar, Zouheir Ibrahim, Zaalouk, Tamer Mohamed, Maadarani, Ossama Sajeh, Elshabasy, Ragab Desouky
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7165353/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32318296
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9431496
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author Bitar, Zouheir Ibrahim
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description A 56-year-old male was admitted to the emergency department for acute pulmonary edema and septic shock, yet no clear source of infection was noted upon physical examination. Due to his unstable condition, bedside ultrasound was performed. A heterogeneous mass in the liver was noted; hence, a tentative diagnosis of liver abscess was made. The abscess was confirmed by abdominal magnetic resonance imaging. Drainage of the abscess was attempted and guided by early ultrasound. This case highlights that point-of-care ultrasound, when performed by an ultrasound-capable critical care physician, can significantly decrease the time to diagnosis for septic patients.
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spelling pubmed-71653532020-04-21 It Is Always Early with Point-of-Care Ultrasound Bitar, Zouheir Ibrahim Zaalouk, Tamer Mohamed Maadarani, Ossama Sajeh Elshabasy, Ragab Desouky Case Rep Crit Care Case Report A 56-year-old male was admitted to the emergency department for acute pulmonary edema and septic shock, yet no clear source of infection was noted upon physical examination. Due to his unstable condition, bedside ultrasound was performed. A heterogeneous mass in the liver was noted; hence, a tentative diagnosis of liver abscess was made. The abscess was confirmed by abdominal magnetic resonance imaging. Drainage of the abscess was attempted and guided by early ultrasound. This case highlights that point-of-care ultrasound, when performed by an ultrasound-capable critical care physician, can significantly decrease the time to diagnosis for septic patients. Hindawi 2020-04-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7165353/ /pubmed/32318296 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9431496 Text en Copyright © 2020 Zouheir Ibrahim Bitar et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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