title: Should intensivist do routine abdominal ultrasound?
abstract: Roundworm infestation is common in tropical climate population with a low socioeconomic status. We describe a case of a young male with polytrauma accident who presented with small bowel dysfunction with a high gastric residual volume during enteral feeding. While searching the etiology, the intensivist performed bedside abdominal ultrasound (USG) as a part of whole body USG screening along with clinical examination using different frequency probes to examine bowel movement and ultimately found ascariasis to be the cause. This case report will boost up the wide use of bedside USG by critical care physicians in their patient workup.
authors.affiliation: Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sukhen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Samanta
authors.affiliation: Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sanjay Gandhi Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
authors.forename: Sujay
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Samanta
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care (Trauma Centre), JPNA Trauma Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Kapil Dev
authors.initials: KD
authors.lastname: Soni
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care (Trauma Centre), JPNA Trauma Centre, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
authors.forename: Richa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Aggarwal
keywords: Ascariasis; bedside; bowel movement; gastric residual volume; ultrasonography