Advancing Emergency Care partnership in Ethiopia

Nov 14, 2014 � Three weeks and dozens of meetings later, still much remains to be done. For those who missed my earlier post, I have been in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, working during my combination vacation-elective to help forge a network of Ethiopian Emergency Departments (EDs) in order to aid in multicenter...

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Point of Care Ultrasound in Rwanda : A few interesting cases.

Case 1:  Last week, we had a patient who presented to the emergency room booked as heart failure.  He was transferred from a district hospital with hypoxia.  The team there had started treating him with a beta blocker and Lasix but he was not improving.  His oxygen saturation...

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