Hospital for Special Surgery

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• Medicine

  
  Point-Of-Care Ultrasound Screening for Proximal Lower Extremity Deep Venous Thrombosis Rebecca G. Theophanous¹, Vinca W. Chow², David L. Convissar³, Stephen C. Haskins^4,5, Robert A. Jones⁶, Hari K. P. Kalagara⁷, Yuriy S. Bronshteyn^{8 1}Department of Emergency Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine, ²Department of Anesthesiology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, ³Department of Anesthesiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, ⁴Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care and Pain Management, Hospital for Special Surgery, ⁵Department of Anesthesiology, Weill-Cornell Medical College, ⁶Department of Emergency Medicine, MetroHealth Medical Center/Case Western Reserve University, ⁷Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, ⁸Department of Anesthesiology, Duke University School of Medicine Traditionally, lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is diagnosed by radiology-performed venous duplex ultrasound. Providers appropriately trained in focused point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) can perform a rapid bedside examination with high sensitivity and specificity in critically ill patients. We describe the scanning technique for focused POCUS DVT lower extremity examination.