Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography

Iatrogenic rectus sheath hematoma (RSH) developed after paracentesis is a rare but life-threatening complication. Mortality rates of patients may increase due to delays in treatment and comorbid conditions. In this article, we present the case of a patient who was unstable in the emergency departmen...

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Autores principales: Ay, Yagmur, Canakci, Mustafa Emin, Temel, Tuncer, Ozakin, Engin, Acar, Nurdan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824820
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13669
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author Ay, Yagmur
Canakci, Mustafa Emin
Temel, Tuncer
Ozakin, Engin
Acar, Nurdan
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description Iatrogenic rectus sheath hematoma (RSH) developed after paracentesis is a rare but life-threatening complication. Mortality rates of patients may increase due to delays in treatment and comorbid conditions. In this article, we present the case of a patient who was unstable in the emergency department and was diagnosed with RSH using point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS). The importance of POCUS has increased as hematoma manifestations of patients with severe ascites tend to be obscured. POCUS has varied uses in the emergency department, and in this article we emphasize the use of POCUS in a life-threatening case of RSH.
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spelling pubmed-80122462021-04-05 Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Ay, Yagmur Canakci, Mustafa Emin Temel, Tuncer Ozakin, Engin Acar, Nurdan Cureus Emergency Medicine Iatrogenic rectus sheath hematoma (RSH) developed after paracentesis is a rare but life-threatening complication. Mortality rates of patients may increase due to delays in treatment and comorbid conditions. In this article, we present the case of a patient who was unstable in the emergency department and was diagnosed with RSH using point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS). The importance of POCUS has increased as hematoma manifestations of patients with severe ascites tend to be obscured. POCUS has varied uses in the emergency department, and in this article we emphasize the use of POCUS in a life-threatening case of RSH. Cureus 2021-03-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8012246/ /pubmed/33824820 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13669 Text en Copyright © 2021, Ay et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Ay, Yagmur
Canakci, Mustafa Emin
Temel, Tuncer
Ozakin, Engin
Acar, Nurdan
Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography
title Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography
title_full Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography
title_fullStr Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography
title_full_unstemmed Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography
title_short Hemodynamic Instability in Emergency Department: Giant Rectus Sheath Hematoma and Point-of-Care Ultrasonography
title_sort hemodynamic instability in emergency department: giant rectus sheath hematoma and point-of-care ultrasonography
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8012246/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33824820
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13669
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