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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. Lessey¹, H. Lee Higdon III¹, Sara E. Miller², Thomas A. Price³

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.

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Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition

Rodrigo O. L. Pereira¹, David L. Convissar², Sean Montgomery³, James T. Herbert¹, Christopher R. Reed³, Hoang J. Tang³, 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.