{"pk":1129,"title":"Critical Point-of-care Ultrasound Diagnosis of Fournier’s Gangrene: A Case Report","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Introduction:\n Fournier’s gangrene is a severe, necrotizing, and potentially fatal, soft tissue infection of the perineum that can be difficult to diagnose clinically. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has established a critical role in emergency medicine as a quick diagnostic tool due to its safety, accuracy, and cost effectiveness.\nCase Report:\n We present a case in which POCUS was used to rapidly confirm diagnosis in an unstable, severely septic patient presenting to the emergency department with Fournier’s gangrene.\nConclusion: \nPoint-of-care ultrasound can be used to make the diagnosis of Fournier’s gangrene in critical patients when other diagnostic modalities are not feasible due to a patient’s clinical state.","language":"en","license":{"name":"Creative Commons Attribution 4.0","short_name":"CC BY 4.0","text":"Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.\r\n\r\nNo additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0"},"keywords":[{"word":"point-of-care ultrasound"},{"word":"Fournier’s gangrene"},{"word":"necrotizing infections"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"case report"}],"section":"Case Reports","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1ts405ng","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Lauren","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ramm","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonkers, New York","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Kayla","middle_name":"","last_name":"Guidry","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonkers, New York","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Angela","middle_name":"","last_name":"Cirilli","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonkers, New York","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Ellen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kurkowski","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonkers, New York","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Connie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yu","name_suffix":"","institution":"St. John’s Riverside Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Yonkers, New York","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2022-01-29T00:13:17-05:00","date_accepted":"2022-01-29T00:13:17-05:00","date_published":"2022-01-29T00:13:59-05:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uciem_cpcem/article/1129/galley/869/download/"}]}