C. Brunner, S. Schreiber, M. Bokemeyer, G. Ransmayr, W. Struhal, E. Olbert, Naela Alhani, M. Vosko
{"title":"Value of ultrasound fusion imaging in detecting vascular cerebral white matter pathology","authors":"C. Brunner, S. Schreiber, M. Bokemeyer, G. Ransmayr, W. Struhal, E. Olbert, Naela Alhani, M. Vosko","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00275-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00275-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45482241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Z. Dewar, Stephanie Ko, Cameron Rogers, Alexis Oropallo, Andy Augustine, Ankitha Pamula, Christopher L. Berry
{"title":"Prehospital portable ultrasound for safe and accurate prehospital needle thoracostomy: a pilot educational study","authors":"Z. Dewar, Stephanie Ko, Cameron Rogers, Alexis Oropallo, Andy Augustine, Ankitha Pamula, Christopher L. Berry","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00270-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00270-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43842007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Raham Bacha, Syed Amir Gilani, Asif Hanif, Iqra Manzoor
{"title":"Interobserver agreement on the sonographic severity grading of shoulder impingement syndrome.","authors":"Raham Bacha, Syed Amir Gilani, Asif Hanif, Iqra Manzoor","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00272-8","DOIUrl":"10.1186/s13089-022-00272-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Shoulder impingement syndrome is the painful entrapment of the soft tissues between the acromion and the humeral head. The severity of shoulder impingement could be graded according to the limitation of shoulder joint moment. The reliability of sonographic findings in the grading of shoulder impingement severity grading is required to be evaluated by the consistency of findings between the observers.</p><p><strong>Purpose: </strong>To assess the interobserver agreement in the sonographic severity grading of shoulder impingement syndrome with the help of a ratio between acromion-to-greater tuberosity distance in the abduction and neutral arm position.</p><p><strong>Material and methods: </strong>Patients were examined by two independent observers in the coronal approach with neutral arm position. Acromion-to-greater tuberosity distance was measured in abduction and neutral shoulder position. The ratios of the distances in the abduction and neutral position were calculated to grade the severity of shoulder impingement syndrome.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 78 shoulders were included in this study. A strong agreement was found for the grading of shoulder impingement severity grading between the two independent observers with Kappa value of 0.94. And correlation between the results of the two observers for the severity grading of shoulder impingement syndrome was significant at 0.01 level.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Severity grading of the shoulder impingement syndrome was performed based on the ratio of acromion-to-greater tuberosity distance in abduction and neutral arm position. However, the sonographic findings were consistent and a strong interobserver agreement was seen in this sonographic severity grading.</p>","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":"22"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9160167/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48334396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Héctor Andrés Ruiz Ávila, Hans Fred García-Araque, Estivalis Acosta-Gutiérrez
{"title":"Paradoxical venous air embolism detected with point-of-care ultrasound: a case report","authors":"Héctor Andrés Ruiz Ávila, Hans Fred García-Araque, Estivalis Acosta-Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00265-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00265-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43433786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Matthew S. Haldeman, Evaristo Kunka, M. Makasa, Bassim Birkland
{"title":"Resident perception on the impact of point-of-care ultrasound in clinical care at a family medicine training program in Zambia","authors":"Matthew S. Haldeman, Evaristo Kunka, M. Makasa, Bassim Birkland","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00273-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00273-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46834489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
N. Soni, Robert Nathanson, M. Andreae, R. Khosla, Karthik Vadamalai, Karthik Kode, J. Boyd, Charles M. LoPresti, D. Resop, Z. Basrai, Jason P. Williams, B. Bales, H. Sauthoff, Erin Wetherbee, Elizabeth K Haro, Natalie Smith, Michael J. Mader, Jacqueline A. Pugh, E. Finley, C. Schott
{"title":"Development of a multisystem point of care ultrasound skills assessment checklist","authors":"N. Soni, Robert Nathanson, M. Andreae, R. Khosla, Karthik Vadamalai, Karthik Kode, J. Boyd, Charles M. LoPresti, D. Resop, Z. Basrai, Jason P. Williams, B. Bales, H. Sauthoff, Erin Wetherbee, Elizabeth K Haro, Natalie Smith, Michael J. Mader, Jacqueline A. Pugh, E. Finley, C. Schott","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00268-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00268-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41509103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Clinical relevance of a multiorgan focused clinical ultrasound in internal medicine","authors":"Ximena Cid-Serra, A. Royse, D. Canty, C. Royse","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00269-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00269-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-05-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42251618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Larissa van Essen, T. Olgers, Moritz van Heel, J. T. ter Maaten
{"title":"Quality assessment of point-of-care ultrasound reports for patients at the emergency department treated by internists","authors":"Larissa van Essen, T. Olgers, Moritz van Heel, J. T. ter Maaten","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00267-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00267-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44268748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jasmine Samuel, E. Kerr, David Young, M. Watson, D. Raj
{"title":"The use of joints of meat as phantoms for ultrasound-guided needling skills: a prospective blinded study","authors":"Jasmine Samuel, E. Kerr, David Young, M. Watson, D. Raj","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00263-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00263-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47010273","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohd Anwar Ibrahim, Siti Suhaila Hamzah, Julina Md Noor, Mohamad Iqhbal Kunji Mohamad, Mohd Fazrul Mokhtar, Mohamad Rodi Isa, Mohammed Fauzi Abdul Rani
{"title":"The association of ultrasound assessment of gallbladder wall thickness with dengue fever severity.","authors":"Mohd Anwar Ibrahim, Siti Suhaila Hamzah, Julina Md Noor, Mohamad Iqhbal Kunji Mohamad, Mohd Fazrul Mokhtar, Mohamad Rodi Isa, Mohammed Fauzi Abdul Rani","doi":"10.1186/s13089-022-00262-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s13089-022-00262-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objectives: </strong>To evaluate the association between ultrasound assessment of gallbladder wall thickness (GBWT) among severe dengue patients and dengue patients with warning signs to their clinical outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A prospective, cross-sectional study involving adult dengue patients presented to our emergency department between March until September 2018. The patients were classified based on WHO classification. A gallbladder wall scan was performed on all patients.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 44 patients were enrolled into the study; majority of the patients with GBWT had severe dengue, significantly more than the dengue patients with warning signs (90.5% sensitivity; 69.6% specificity). The sensitivity of GBWT in determining admission to critical care areas or general ward was 100% with a specificity of 62.1%. Our analysis showed that the two variables significant in determining the severity of dengue were age (p = 0.045) and GBWT (p < 0.001). Both factors together gave 81.0% sensitivity and 78.3% specificity in predicting patients for severe dengue. The receiver operator characteristic curve revealed that using variable GBWT status can discriminate 87.1% (95%CI 66.3, 93.7%) of having severe dengue or dengue with warning signs.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The finding of GBWT when consolidated with other clinical parameters may assist clinicians to perform risk stratification in the emergency department and become another adjunct to the assessment of severe dengue.</p>","PeriodicalId":36911,"journal":{"name":"Ultrasound Journal","volume":" ","pages":"13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8948308/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40320437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}