Case stories that stick

Do you know what the typical findings on lung ultrasound in COVID-19 patients are? Here is a patient with massive involvement.

Ultrasound compendium dealing with the anatomy of the carotid and vertebral artery. Learn which branches are visible and which other structures you will find in the neck. Includes video examples.

The first chapter of the free online video tutorial on carotid and vertebral artery ultrasound. Learn when and how to perform carotid ultrasound. What are the risks?

Did you catch the pathology, which is responsible for bilateral pneumonia and the systolic murmur of the patient with endocarditis in our last post...

The “path of diagnosis” often depends on the medical specialty a patient is first confronted with.

Or daily routine often forces us to stay focused and only do to what we are told to do. Not to look left or right. But this also means we are deprived from making important discoveries which might impact our patients. Here is such a case...

One and a half decades in “Zwettl”

Just a week ago a 78-year-old lady came into my office, greeting me with a smile. She said she wanted a routine to follow up echo exam.

Before I had the chance to ask for more details, she said:

Inspired by the public view that “Health care professionals are the true heroes of the COVID-19 crisis” we want to also put those into the spotlight who for many years, long before the pandemic erupted were standing in the first row day by day and share their stories of success.

Nobody is born an expert and we all make mistakes. True, in medicine such mistakes can have detrimental effects. But as humans, we also have the ability to learn from the mistakes and failures of others.

It can be pretty embarrassing if you miss a pathology or an important finding. But it is even worse if you have mistaken a pathologic finding for an entire organ. When I was new to abdominal ultrasound this is what almost happened to me.