I’ve written posts before about times that the cardiac monitor disagrees with the pulse oximeter as to how many times the heart is beating. In the prior post, it was due to PVC’s. This time it is something different…
Cardiac monitored fooled again…
The Color Doppler Box
While scanning a patient’s heart the other day, I noticed an artifact in the cine clips after adjusting the size of the color Doppler box. Let’s take a look.
Continue readingToo Many Buzzwords About Facial Droop
Forehead sparing, partial dual innervation, HSV, VZV, Ramsay Hunt, geniculate ganglion, zoster oticus, zoster opthalmicus, Hutchinson’s sign, nasociliary nerve, dendritic ulcers, topical steroids – it’s a lot of buzzwords. Let’s clarify. From the top…
Continue readingDTaP vs Tdap?
Are these interchangeable? This came up recently. Pediatricians, family doctors, and everyone else that provides primary care might not know whether to laugh or cry at our ignorance, but this is not in our wheelhouse despite the fact that we boost a lot of tetanus immunity. Let’s look at it.
Continue readingIs the probe backwards?
Learners get confused sometimes about which direction the probe is facing. Let’s look at how to know if you have it right or not.
Continue readingHow Gain Settings Affect Vitreous Imaging
Indulge me in a few more thoughts and images about posterior vitreous detachments.
Continue readingIbuprofen and acetaminophen shortcut
I noticed a pattern in the dose of the things the other day that I’d never seen before. Am I late to the party? This is too good to be true.
Continue readingRetinal detachment; my white whale
After years of searching, I finally came across a few cases of retinal detachment. They are usually simple, but one similar diagnosis shows up when we learn about these things. There is an easy way to tell them apart, but you have to know what you are doing. Let’s have a look.
Continue readingE-waves? A-waves?
I saw a 51-year-old man recently with hypotension and tachycardia. It got interesting.
Continue readingUltrasound Image Depth
Learners often make the same same mistakes. One of the most common is not setting the depth properly. It’s not hard to fix, but it does need to pointed out. Let’s do that.
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