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Focused Adult Ultrasound Guidelines Update

Image Interpretation in Critical Care Ultrasound: Cognitive Skills (Guideline) This session on Sunday, February 23, 2025, at SCCM’s Critical Care Congress introduced the new SCCM adult ultrasound guidelines focused update and taught poi...

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ECPR- Basic Concepts Extra-Corporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) Introduction: What is ECPR? Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (ECPR) is an a...

Avibactam→ for AmpC and KPC

𝔽𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕤 𝕊𝕦𝕘𝕘𝕖𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕧𝕖 𝕠𝕗 𝔸𝕠𝕣𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕀𝕟𝕛𝕦𝕣𝕪 𝕠𝕟 ℂ𝕙𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕏-ℝ𝕒𝕪
1. Abnormal/ Indistinct Aortic K**b/ Aortic Contour
2. Obscured aorto-pulmonary window
3. Widened Para-spinal Stripe and Para Tracheal Stripe
4. Deviation of Trachea or NGT to Right
5. Mediatinum: Chest Ratio more than 25%
6. Widened Mediastinum
(>8 cm when SUPINE and > 6cm when UPRIGHT)
7. Depression of left main bronchus
The left mainstem bronchus may be depressed more than 40 degrees from the horizontal
8. Large left Hemothorax
9. Left Apical Pleural Cap
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Thorasic Trauma
Cardiac Box: Danger Zone for penetrating Mediastinal injury.
Contains, Great vessels (veins and arteries) Airways (trachea and bronchuses) and the Heart. Parts of liver, pancreas and spleen are also present in this region.

Anatomical Boundary
Anterior Cardiac Box
Superiorly: Clavicle
Laterally: Ni**le Linr
Inferiorly: Costal Margins

Contrary few textbooks follow this anatomical boundary: midclavicular lines laterally, the clavicles superiorly, and the xiphoid process inferiorly.

Posterior Cardiac Box
Superior – Top of scapula
Lateral - Medial to scapula
Inferior - Above costal margins