Been Gone For a Few Days.

Sorry, I have a family, and I have issues.  I think everyone knows what it is like to prepare for deaths.  My Mom and Dad are in the 80's.  We have been going around with the bottom feeders (attorneys).  Enough.

Upper extremity U/S is great at ruling out CLOTS!

Shoot I have known this for years, and so have many of the great doctors I work with are great.  Here is an article from www.sonoworld.com to put this issue at rest.  Thanks Sonoworld!


Single whole-arm ultrasound can rule out upper-extremity deep vein thrombosis with a lower rate of repeat screening than a multi-step strategy using clinical scoring and D-dimer testing, researchers reported.
Ultrasonography has largely replaced venography for the diagnosis of upper-extremity deep vein thrombosis (UE-DVT), despite the absence of diagnostic management studies showing the practice to be useful for determining which patients need anticoagulation therapy, researcher Michelangelo Sartori, MD, PhD, of S. Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy, and colleagues wrote online May 11 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

THANKS SONOWORLD, and JAMA