Bowel-GI - Appendicitis
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15 year old female with no PMH with 3 days of RLQ abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting with inability to tolerate PO, RLQ tenderness. Bedside POCUS performed for suspected appendicitis. The psoas muscle and iliac vessels were used as landmarks and free fluid was identified. This prompted closer scanning through the fluid. When the probe was rotated to a sagittal plane, a tubular structure with blind end was identified surrounded by free fluid. CT later confirmed appendicitis and patient went to surgery. Drs. Praneetha Chaganti, Kyle Kelson, Scott Kendall - Kings County/SUNY Downstate Emergency Medicine