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Case - 'Drug Problem'

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So I think probably the best place to really show what POCUS is and what it can do is to give you a case - and this is an actual case I had a little more than a year ago. I was working in our emergency department and a young woman came in, in her 30s. She was put in our resuscitation bay unresponsive and billed as a “drug problem”. It wasn’t a bad guess – she was the demographic and she was unresponsive. However, she received 2mg of intravenous naloxone or narcan without response. When we got in there she was still unresponsive – she was very tachycardic, her heart rate was up and her blood pressure was low and she wouldn’t wake up at all. So we did the normal stuff – put an IV in, gave her some fluids, gave her ACLS drugs, and prepared to intubate. And actually the resident went ahead with the intubation and I took a look with the ultrasound, because that's what I do.

Introduction to Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

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Lesson NameMinutes id
Introduction1
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Case - 'Drug Problem'1 checkmark
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Case - Ultrasound1
3
Case - Diagnosis1
4
Looking Back1
5
Daytime/Nighttime Speed1
6
Availability & Barriers2
8
What is POCUS1
10
POCUS for Diagnosis, Procedures & Service1
11
POCUS is Goal Directed1
12
POCUS can save lives1
13

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