{"pk":8715,"title":"Diagnosis of a Strangulated Laparoscopic Incisional Hernia with Point-of-Care Ultrasonography","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The use of point-of-care ultrasound for the diagnosis of bowel obstructions and hernias is becomingincreasingly common in the emergency department (ED). Using a relatively rare case of an incisionalport hernia, we demonstrate the ultrasound findings of a strangulated hernia causing a partialsmall bowel obstruction. A 46-year-old female presented four days following a laparoscopic surgerycomplaining of abdominal pain, nausea and lack of bowel movements. There was a palpable massin the left lower quadrant under the 12mm trocar port incision. ED point-of-care ultrasound revealedherniated akinetic loops of bowel through her laparoscopy incision. This is the first case report todescribe the use of point-of-care ultrasound for the diagnosis of a strangulated incisional port herniaat the bedside. [West J Emerg Med. 2015;16(3):450–452.]","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":"ultrasound"},{"word":"Emergency Medicine"},{"word":"Incisional Hernia"}],"section":"Technology in Emergency Medicine","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5b9622m1","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Niran","middle_name":"","last_name":"Argintaru","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto, Division of Emergency Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Ahmed","middle_name":"","last_name":"Al Den","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto, Division of Emergency Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada","department":"None"},{"first_name":"Jordan","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chenkin","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Toronto, Division of Emergency Medicine, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada","department":"None"}],"date_submitted":"2015-01-21T23:54:40+05:30","date_accepted":"2015-01-21T23:54:40+05:30","date_published":"2015-04-10T02:01:18+05:30","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/westjem/article/8715/galley/4999/download/"}]}