This week's topic: skin and soft tissue infections! Before you cut into that “abscess”, check with ultrasound! Is it really an abscess? What if it's necrotizing fasciitis? Learn all this and more this week with us.
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Article 1
Sonographic Findings in Necrotizing Fasciitis – Journal of Ultrasound Medicine (2016)
Article 2
Ultrasonographic Screening of Clinically-suspected Necrotizing Fasciitis– Academic Emergency Medicine (2002)
Article 3
Air and its Sonographic Appearance: Understanding the Artifacts – Journal of Emergency Medicine (2017)
Article 4
POCUS for Diagnosis of Abscess in Skin and Soft Tissue Infections – Academic Emergency Medicine (2016)
Article 5
The Relationship Between Fluid Accumulation in Ultrasonography and the Diagnosis and Prognosis of Patients with Necrotizing Fasciitis – Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology (2019)
Extras:
Ultrasound G.E.L. Podcast (Podcast and Summary of Article 4)
Ultrasound G.E.L. Podcast (Podcast and Summary of Article 5)
5 Minute Sono (Cellulitis vs. Abscess)
5 Minute Sono (Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections)
The POCUS Atlas (extra evidence and examples)
Article-2-Yen_Nec_Fasc_-2002-Academic_Emergency_Medicine-copy-1.pdf