You are treating someone with a shoulder dislocation. You have a few options that can be used to help put it back where it belongs: A) Procedural sedation - the old standby. B) Intraarticular injection - some people love it, some hate it C) Relaxational maneuvers - sometimes feasible, and, last but not least D) Regional anesthesia - the new kid on the (nerve) block.

Nail bed injuries are common from finger trauma, but we can't be just ripping off everybody's finger nail to see what what was injured. Maybe ultrasound can help?

Can implementing a POCUS protocol helps improve the work flow in the emergency department?

Pain from kidney stones is a common reason to come to the emergency department. Ultrasound has been shown to be a good first step in assessment - to determine the presence and degree of hydronephrosis.

Can you do POCUS to detect acute chest syndrome?

This article takes a look at using ultrasound to assess for successful reduction of adult patients with distal radius fractures.

Did you know that a single 5 cc saline push can likely confirm correct line placement?

Ultrasound of the IVC is the people's volume responsiveness test. The idea is that you can non-invasively tell if a patient will benefit from getting more IV fluids. Everybody wants this to work so we can have a simple test to help us in critical situations. It is more reliable in mechanically ventilated patients with a fixed tidal volume but how about the non-intubated patient? Can we trust it?