Title: POCUS: Small Bowel Obstruction(Submitted by Alexis Salerno)<br/>Author: Michael Bond<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/78/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; line-height: 1.38;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; color: inherit;">Small Bowel Obstruction</span></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><span data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Although it takes about 11 minutes to diagnose SBO on ultrasound, newer studies have shown a decrease in sensitivity and specificity of SBO with 11 false negatives and 57 fall positives. So PLEASE BE CAREFUL when looking for SBO with ultrasound.</span></span></li> <li style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px;"><span data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><span data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Let’s give a shout out to one of our medical students, Alexa Van Besien, who recently took some great images of a patient with a known SBO.</span></span></span></li> </ul> <p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <img src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/uA_s4SyDgILLWB19k3dw9UP4VYAbVOhOPBkvp2zWotE9wCM_pH_TjkG8UqoneVLKBS4euf3B0lbco0yX3NGTUPB_05111YKKDYZhXcUCJ24crix2P9PL2DqymbzweiD63HYj7qgwugo9JSwkiw" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;" /></p> <p style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial;"> <img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-DJU8fucsALTWOAXjSNG-zDVogeBNS5jvTxvNQPBbsl-cFEGjnQjamJ7W0GGAvzWKVX7iBpVp_BaDatLma7poXIrZZ4GG7V89peSrjyFzfZKr80hMklAuPCQz-R3jVuboJ1oe5BdgirKFaY28Q" /></p> <fieldset><legend>References</legend>
<p> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px;"><span data-ogsc="rgb(0, 0, 0)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-size: 11pt; line-height: inherit; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">For more information on how to perform these exams and research data take a look at coreultrasound.com, thepocusatlas.com and ultrasoundgel.org.</span></span></p> </fieldset>