The Use of Evaluation Tool for Ultrasound Skills Development and Education to Assess the Extent of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Adoption in Lebanese Emergency Departments.

Background: Previously acknowledged as "bedside ultrasound", point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is gaining great recognition nowadays and more physicians are using it to effectively diagnose and adequately manage patients. To measure previous, present and potential adoption of PoCUS and barriers to its use in Canada, Woo et al established the questionnaire "Evaluation Tool for Ultrasound skills Development and Education" (ETUDE) in 2007. This questionnaire sorted respondents into innovators, early adopters, majority, and nonadopters.

Clinical characteristics and outcomes of bone marrow transplantation patients presenting to the ED of a tertiary care center.

Background: Bone marrow transplantation is a breakthrough in the world of hematology and oncology. In our region, there is scarce literature studying emergency department visits among BMT patients, as well as their predictors of mortality.

Objectives: This study aimed to assess the frequency, reasons, clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients presenting to the ED after a BMT, and to study the predictors of mortality in those patients.

Meningitis due to Weissella Confusa.

Bacterial meningitis is a life-threatening condition that should be addressed as an emergency. The typical culprit microorganisms are targeted empirically with ceftriaxone and vancomycin, in the absence of an immunocompromised state. In this case report, however, we are describing a case of meningitis secondary to Weissella confusa, bacteria inherently resistant to the two drugs commonly used to empirically treat meningitis.