Point-of-care transthoracic echocardiography

Abstract

We have made huge progress with regards to awareness of HIV, but we must normalise testing in both primary and secondary care to decrease late and unknown HIV diagnoses. ■ latter contexts as well, CTPA can be deferred and pre-emptive thrombolysis initiated instead. 8,9 Alternatively, emergency pulmonary embolectomy might be deployed, as was the case in a haemodynamically compromised PE patient in whom transoesophageal echocardiography showed McConnell's sign as well as impending paradoxical embolism characterised by a thrombus straddling a patent foramen ovale. 10 ■