How full can the balloon be?

Ultrasound. Is there anything it can’t do? Well, yes. Lots of things although gastric ultrasound is supposed to be one of the things it does do. Andrew Weatherall has a bit on ultrasounds, guts and the real question: when should we worry about aspiration?  I’d like to think I’m pretty welcoming of technology. I amContinue reading “How full can the balloon be?”

The Urine Drug Screen – Know Thy Limitations

We are all guilty of ordering them in the ED, but do we really know what we’re ordering? Urine Sample. By Turbotorque (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons The Implications of the Urine Drug Screen1 literature review looked at 7 different retrospective studies describing a total of 1,405 patients and found the urine drug…Continue reading “The Urine Drug Screen – Know Thy Limitations”