Medmastery: Evaluation of the spleen in trauma

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The team at Medmastery are providing LITFL readers with a series of FOAMed courses from across their website.

In this video, from the Abdominal Ultrasound Essentials course, Dr. Nikolaus Mayr discusses the basic principles of ultrasound of the spleen in trauma including subcapsular haematoma, focal intraparenchymal haematoma, splenic lacerations, splenic rupture and active bleeding.

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Guest post: Nikolaus Mayr, MD. Chief Resident of Radiology, Department of Radiology, and Nuclear Medicine at the Hospital of the Brothers of St. John of God in Salzburg.
Last update: Feb 28, 2018 @ 9:47 am
Medmastery: Evaluation of the spleen in trauma
Mike Cadogan

Source: Life in the Fast Lane - February 28, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Mike Cadogan Tags: Medmastery FAST spleen splenic haematoma splenic rupture Trauma Source Type: blogs