Point-of-care Ultrasound

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For example, do you find it most useful for outpatient disease assessment/management, consideration of further imaging or specialist referral, or tria...

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How do you decide the maximum amount of volume to remove during a therapeutic thoracentesis?

Do you use the traditional strict limit of 1.5 L, or do you consider removing more volume if a patient appears to tolerate it?

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What do you think about using conventional thoracic imaging methods (e.g., X-ray, CT, etc.) to determine if a pleural effusion is of adequate size to consider thoracentesis?

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How do you decide whether to use lung POCUS versus CT as the next step when a chest X-ray is equivocal for pneumonia?

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How do you recommend incorporating B-lines on lung POCUS as part of evaluating a patient's volume status?

In particular, how do you reconcile situations where lung POCUS findings contradict other components of volume assessment (e.g. JVD, peripheral edema,...

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How do you determine whether to limit volume removal during therapeutic paracentesis in a patient without acute or chronic kidney disease?

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How do you use cardiac POCUS to potentially defer formal echocardiogram in patients presenting with an acute pulmonary embolism?

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How do you use IVC collapsibility on POCUS to inform decisions for managing hypotension?

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