Success of focused transthoracic echocardiography locations for cardiac visualization during cardiac arrest: A video-review analysis.

Objective: Our primary objective was to determine if there was a difference in success of cardiac visualization by focused transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) location (subxiphoid, parasternal, or apical) during chest compression interruptions among cardiac arrest patients. Secondarily, we sought to determine whether there were differences in chest compression interruption times with the focused TTE locations.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study of video-recorded, adult, cardiac arrest resuscitations in a quaternary care Emergency Department from 11/2018 to 11/2023.

Point-of-care Ultrasound Aiding in the Diagnosis of Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich Syndrome.

We present a case of a 12-year-old female with a history of congenital solitary kidney presenting to an academic pediatric emergency department (ED) in acute abdominal pain. Using ultrasound as the initial diagnostic modality, the patient was found to have Herlyn-Werner-Wunderlich syndrome (HWWS), an abnormal development of the Müllerian system during embryogenesis resulting in obstructed hemivagina with resulting hematometrocolpos. The patient presented with undifferentiated abdominopelvic pain, and in the course of the ED workup was diagnosed with a disorder infrequently encountered by emergency physicians.