PROFUNDUS or Just SUPERFICIALIS? Dissecting Acute Aortic Syndromes

The Well-Tempered Sonographer

Have you ever had a patient's aortic intima and media peel off each other like the plastic casing from a cheap laptop and wish had more tools than just shipping them off to the CT scanner? Well, the D-dimer and the suprasternal aortic notch views may be a solution to your problems!

• This week's show notes
• Aortic Dissection Detection Risk Score (ADD-RS) on MDCalc
• POCUS 101 post on performing aortic ultrasound
• ADD-RS and D-dimer systematic review and meta-analysis by Ren et al in PLOS ONE
• PROFUNDUS paper by Morello et al in the European Journal of Internal Medicine
• SPEED protocol by Gibbons et al in AEM
• Analysis of the SPEED protocol in EMA and SGEM

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The theme music was adapted from the Prelude in C# major from J.S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, volume II, as performed by Raymond Smullyan. It was used under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license.