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Aorta #POCUS step-by-step
🔗 pocus101.com/aorta-ultrasou…
#FOAMed #FOAMcc

Wow, every day is a school day.. 27 years,
never seen this.

The caps of capnography!
#FOAMed #FOAMcc #MedEd
Source: dontforgetthebubbles.com/a-beginners-gu…

Our paper on severe asthma is out. 25% patients did not respond to conventional asthma medications. This is very high compared to a global average of 5-10%. Moreover more advanced medicines are not available jaci-global.org/article/S2772-…

Important echocardiographic features for the assessment of patients with suspected pulmonary hypertension.
#POCUS #MedEd #FOAMed #FOAMcc
🔗 smw.ch/index.php/smw/…
Fig. description - click ‘ALT’

Our paper on Infections and Acute kidney injury; A Global Perspective is out. Highlighting the role of infections in causing AKI worldwide particularly in LMICs. It also provides an approach to AKI recognition and management in patients with infections. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iKf%7EzcYn%…

#POCUS answer:
1. Inferior vena cava
2. Aorta
Arrow heads: renal arteries (appear like banana peel🍌 better demonstrated in 👇 image)
#FOAMed #MedEd

Diagnostic accuracy of focused deep venous, lung, cardiac and multiorgan #ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
🔗 thorax.bmj.com/content/77/7/6…
#POCUS #MedEd #FOAMcc #CriticalCare

Exciting findings from our recent paper: Clinical application of handheld ultrasound devices (POCUS) during the 2022 Sudan Virus disease Ebola outbreak in Uganda. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofad500.1593 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…, Eria Muwanguzi NephroPOCUS Robert Kalyesubula,MD, FISN(USA), PhD-FRCP(London) Derrick Kasozi kasozi andrew, MD, MPH

Ultrasound: “no evidence of cholecystitis”

Op report: “gangrenous cholecystitis with extremely friable tissue. Purulent drainage with manipulation of gallbladder.”

I've seen this many times.

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Diagnosing Lung cancer at its earliest stages often provides the best chance for a cure, worrying however is some of these are missed, Join the experts on Tuesday 28/12/2023 at 3pm in a Webinar t.ly/uKv9C
Uganda Cancer Institute CaseWestern ASCE Mengo Hospital Robert LUKANDE, MB ChB, MMed, FCPath(ECSA)

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Earlier today, I tweeted 2 results from a patient: a retic % and retic count and asked for a diagnosis.

There is one possible answer: polycythemia (in this case, P. vera).

The trick was to derive the RBC count from the retic data... a whopping 8 x 10^12/L!

Come join our distinguished colleagues from Rwanda Biomedical Centre Ministry of HealthZW Ethiopian Public Health Institute and Institut National D'hygiene Publique
At the AFREhealth Official and Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University side event celebrating the success of the implementation science pillar under the #SLL Program 🇪🇹🇷🇼🇨🇮🇿🇼

CARLA #CPHIA2023

How to distinguish artery and vein on #POCUS
#Nephpearls #FOAMed
(A) Typical appearance of artery. An artery is rounded, pulsing, and accompanied by thin high brightness of the intima beneath the adventitial circle. (B) Venous stasis and valve. Gray slightly high-echoic venous

Beware of what kind of rice are you eating?
Our paper 📜 is interesting!
📚 ✨ Arsenic levels in rice brands sold in Kampala: an experimental study to show the modifying effect of boiling, soaking and washing | Journal of Food Safety and Hygiene 🔥 🔥 jfsh.tums.ac.ir/index.php/jfsh…

This patient has monkeypox (now called mpox) with over 250 crusted lesions. Patients remain infective through physical contact until all the crusts have fallen off and are covered with new skin (takes 2-4 weeks).

Monkeypox is related to smallpox but not chickenpox, therefore a

Lower extremity vascular anatomy – important figure to know for DVT #POCUS / #ultrasound

Image by David Convissar, MD
🔗dx.doi.org/10.3791/64601-v

Severe Hyponatremia Correction, Mortality, and Central Pontine Myelinolysis | NEJM Evidence evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Coronary artery anatomy Cathy Cichon #MedEd #CardioEd