EM Cases · POCUS biliary and renal
POCUS teaching and AAA safety-net — OSCE station
ACEM Fellowship OSCE: teach hydronephrosis grading then manage symptomatic AAA found on scan.
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Prompt
Teaching station on renal POCUS that evolves into recognition of AAA mislabelled as renal colic.
Stem
All persons, presentations and observations in this station are fictional and invented for teaching assessment; they do not describe a real person.
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- [2]Summers SM, Scruggs W, Menchine MD, et al. A prospective evaluation of emergency department bedside ultrasonography for the detection of acute cholecystitis. Annals of Emergency Medicine, 2010.PMID 20138397
- [3]Rubano E, Mehta N, Caputo W, et al. Systematic review: emergency department bedside ultrasonography for diagnosing suspected abdominal aortic aneurysm. Acad Emerg Med, 2013.PMID 23406071