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Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (Pocus) Workshop For Internal Medicine Residents: A Pre/Post-Training Assessment Of Confidence And Knowledge, Abraham Lee, Cesar Gutierrez, Michelle Lopez Jan 2020

Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (Pocus) Workshop For Internal Medicine Residents: A Pre/Post-Training Assessment Of Confidence And Knowledge, Abraham Lee, Cesar Gutierrez, Michelle Lopez

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Across the country, internal medicine residency training programs are having difficulty figuring out how to optimally implement an effective point-of-care ultrasound training into their respective curricula. This study aimed to assess whether a week-long training course of didactics, followed by hands-on practice, improved both the confidence and knowledge skills of internal medicine residents using point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). The trainees were asked to complete pre/post-training surveys, which tested their ability to interpret POCUS images and also asked them to score their confidence in using POCUS. Results showed a statistically significant improvement in not only their confidence in using POCUS, but also …


Doxycycline Didn’T Cure The Fever! An Interesting Case Of Large Granular Lymphocytic (Lgl) Leukemia With Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (Hlh)., Dayan Ojeda Damas, Ayesha Hamid, Kevin Wu, Michael Lapelusa, Nabeel Sarhill, Henry Kwang May 2019

Doxycycline Didn’T Cure The Fever! An Interesting Case Of Large Granular Lymphocytic (Lgl) Leukemia With Secondary Hemophagocytic Lymphohistiocytosis (Hlh)., Dayan Ojeda Damas, Ayesha Hamid, Kevin Wu, Michael Lapelusa, Nabeel Sarhill, Henry Kwang

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HLH: A rare association with LGL Leukemia Dayan Ojeda-Damas MD, Ayesha Hamid MD, Kevin Wu MD, Michael Lapelusa MS-3, Nabeel Sarhill MD, Henry Kwang MD University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Internal Medicine Residency at Valley Baptist Medical Center. Harlingen, TX Introduction Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a potentially fatal syndrome characterized by excessive immune activation. It is diagnosed in patients of all ages and is classified as either primary from gene mutations or secondary from various triggers. We present an interesting case of HLH in a patient with large granular lymphocytic leukemia (LGL). Presentation A 53-year-old female with a questionable …