Meeting
Abstract Number: 21
Hospital Medicine 2019, March 24-27, National Harbor, Md.
Background: Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is a goal-directed, bedside ultrasound examination performed by a healthcare provider to answer a specific diagnostic question or guide performance of an invasive procedure at the bedside. More hospitalists have begun to use POCUS, but little is known about current POCUS usage by hospitalists. We conducted a national survey […]
Abstract Number: 251
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Ultrasonography has been used for the last decades as a diagnostic tool. In recent years has been used in internal medicine at the bedside as a safe method that can easily detect abnormalities and provides immediate feedback. Purpose: Describe the Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) that has been made in an Internal Medicine Department […]
Abstract Number: 540
Hospital Medicine 2020, Virtual Competition
Case Presentation: A 62-year-old male with past medical history of type 2 diabetes mellitus, coronary and peripheral arterial disease, heart failure with reduced ejection fraction, history of peripheral arterial embolism, history of stroke, vascular dementia and hypertension who presented with sudden onset of shortness of breath associated with cough and chest pain for one day. […]