General ultrasound In the critically ill - part 10 docx

... Lines (ultrasound artifacts) Alines 105 ,109 ,125 b lines 120 B lines 106 ,119,125 B3 lines 119,125 B7 lines 119,125 C lines 118,126 E lines 113,158 0 lines 107 W lines 113,158 Z lines ... neurological examination. Indeed, where is the harm in placing a mechanical probe^ over the tibia in order to explore deep sen- sitivity, thus leaving the cumbersome tuning fork...

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... Conducting an Ultrasound Examination 15 probability the first to study assessing the useful- Conducting an Ultrasound Examination ness of general ultrasound, handled by the inten- sivist ... collects in the nondepen- dent area of the abdomen, i.e., in highly accessi- ble areas in a supine patient. In a personal study, gut sliding was present in 92 of 1...

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... Two-dimensional ultra- sound, in well-trained hands, gives a three-dimen- sional image of an area. It accurately steers the material through the inferior vena cava, then the hepatic veins. ... Hepatic Vein Disorders Ultrasound is an excellent noninvasive method for examining hepatic vein disorders [7]. In the Budd- Chiari syndrome with hepatic veins thrombosis, these ve...

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... collapsed. In the longitudi- nal approach, the borders of the vein are never per- fectly parallel (although in the artery they are). Dynamic changes in the vein are often vast, where- as the artery ... splenomegaly. The probe must be applied rather posteriorly at the last inter- costal spaces. In a supine patient, the distal part of the probe should in prac...

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... confuse the young operator. • FiUing the venous lumen when the vein seems empty: - Using fluid therapy. - Lowering the feet using the balance pedal of the bed. - Manually compressing the common ... method at the internal jugular vein: make a skin landmark at the area of the vein, switch off the ultrasound Fig. 12.16. The operator's hand holdin...

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... Signs in the Lung face between the soft tissues (rich in water) of the wall and the lung tissue (rich in air). The pleural line is called the lung-wall interface. The pleural line is distinct ... volume on inspiration. Therefore, a lung sign will appear at the boundary area, at the precise line where the lung reaches the wall, since the lung surface in...

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... may indicate a certain diagnostic uncertainty. »Hepatization« is an interesting word in the ultra- sound field, since the lung and the liver have a sim- ilar pattern. The term »alveolar filling« ... sign, the comet-tail artifact arising from the pleural line, well defined, erasing A lines, in rhythm with lung sliding and spreading up to the lower edge of the screen...

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... the sinusogram, a self-explanatory term (Fig. 21.1). Maxillary sinusitis gives a two-step sign. At the first level, there can be a sinusogram, according to an all-or-nothing rule. At the ... that the amount of information lost in hemodynamic terms is regained in terms of diagnosis. For exam- ple, fine analysis of the Doppler signal of the pul- monary veins in a...

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... device as in the 25 previous chap- ters. The operator must invest, however, in under- standing the position of objects in space. The needle must follow the sole plane of the probe. The needle ... some or a major- ity of cases? This could make the Doppler informa- tion redundant in first-line analysis in these cases. Another application of a two-dimensional sca...

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... convenience, including obtaining the bene- fits of relaxed labor laws, shipping laws, and for tax purposes. The state of convenience gains the benefit of registry fees and commercial status. In theory, the ... 143 Attorney General counterintelligence, Guidelines regarding, 147 decision-making process, participation in, 58 dissemination of intelligence, statutory authority regarding...

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