Monday, February 1, 2016

Scanning at Hospital das Clinicas in Porto Alegre

Residents at Hospital das Clinicas in Porto Alegre have an optional elective to do emergency ultrasound run by EM doctors Marcio Rodrigues, Bianca Bertuzzi, Daniel Pedrollo and Ana Claudia Tonelli de Oliveira.  The elective is a month long and includes QA with one of the ultrasound staff who reviews all the residents' submitted images and a final exam where the resident is asked to use the ultrasound on a patient in the ED to investigate and common chief complaint (abdominal pain, shortness of breath...).



Eliz, an internal medicine resident on rotation, scanning a patient with cirrhosis for a good window for a paracentesis



Kamila, another internal medicine resident on rotation, performing a subxiphoid scan in a patient with chest pain



Dr. Marcio Rodrigues teaches residents the finer points of the FAST exam



Kamila investigates a patient with abdominal pain



Drs. Bertuzzi and Oliveira administer Eliz' final exam asking her to scan a patient with the chief complaint of shortness of breath

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