Duke University Health System
2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE
Medicine
Intraoperative Detection of Subtle Endometriosis: A Novel Paradigm for Detection and Treatment of Pelvic Pain Associated with the Loss of Peritoneal Integrity
Bruce A. Lessey 1, H. Lee Higdon III 1, Sara E. Miller 2, Thomas A. Price 3
1Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Greenville Hospital System, 2Department of Pathology, Duke University Health System, 3Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Duke University
Loss of peritoneal integrity provides a new paradigm to understand and treat chronic pelvic pain in women with mild forms of endometriosis and can be easily detected using intraoperative instillation of dye at the time of laparoscopy.
Medicine
Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition
Rodrigo O. L. Pereira 1, David L. Convissar 2, Sean Montgomery 3, James T. Herbert 1, Christopher R. Reed 3, Hoang J. Tang 3, Yuriy S. Bronshteyn 1,4
1Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine, 2Department of Anesthesiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 3Department of Surgery, Duke University School of Medicine, Duke University Health System, 4Department of Anesthesiology, Durham VA
Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs provides quick answers in rapidly changing clinical scenarios. We present an efficient and informative protocol for image acquisition for use in acute care settings.
