Author Archives: Alice Chan

Alice Chan is an emergency physician and is completing an ultrasound fellowship at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre.

Beavertail: delicious Canadian pastry or POCUS pitfall?

I want to share a recent ED case that got me thinking. CASE: 38F with alcoholic use disorder presenting with a mildly tender but very distended abdomen. I put the probe on her and see this… The diagnosis was not hard. I expected to see ascites but her LUQ view puzzled me. What am I […]