An 18-year-old Sudanese man presents to ED with a penile erection for the last 6 hours. He woke up with an erection at 6 am but was too embarrassed to tell anyone about it.
He decided to come to the hospital when the pain was unbearable.
You are about to see an 8-year-old boy who represented with right-sided abdominal pain with nausea and vomiting. He presented a day before with similar symptoms and was seen by an RMO and discharged home with some analgesics.
The following KUB x-ray is from a 40 year old with right loin to groin pain. What can be seen on the x-ray? What is the course of the ureter on x-ray KUB? Continue reading
The following KUB plain x-rays are from a 50 year old with acute left flank pain, fever and vomiting. Continue reading
The following coronal CT scan image is from a 30 year old woman whose presenting problem has been severe right sided loin to groin pain. What can you see? Continue reading
Staying with your patient from yesterday, you decide that he needs an indwelling urinary catheter. But what size?
Your next patient is a 4 yo who has a UTI and his mother tells you that he hasn’t passed urine for more than 10 hours. Your nurse does a bladder scan…. but you’re not sure what to do when she tells you that the volume is 130 mls.