Residents and students are invited to participate in on-going studies and to initiate related investigational studies under the guidance of Dr. Thomas Costantino, Director of the Emergency Medicine Ultrasound Program.

Current studies include:

• A randomized trial of ultrasound guided versus landmark technique for needle aspiration of suspected peritonsillar abscesses
• A comparison of limited renal ultrasound plus Doppler ultrasound of ureteral jets versus microhematuria as a screening test for uretolithiasis in emergency department patients with suspicion of renal colic

Recent publications:

Ultrasound-guided peripheral venous access vs. the external jugular vein as the initial approach to the patient with difficult vascular access.
Costantino TG, Kirtz JF, Satz WA.
J Emerg Med. 2009 Mar 19. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 19303238

Pneumoperitoneum.
Horn A, O'Neill G, Costantino TG.
J Emerg Med. 2009 Feb 27. [Epub ahead of print] No abstract available. PMID: 19251388

Images in emergency medicine. Traumatic abdominal wall hernias.
Truong T, Costantino TG.
Ann Emerg Med. 2008 Aug;52(2):182, 6. No abstract available. PMID: 18655924

Images in emergency medicine. Bilateral tubal ectopic pregnancies.
O'Neill GM, Costantino TG, Karras D.
Ann Emerg Med. 2007 Oct;50(4):e1-2. No abstract available. PMID: 17881313

Accuracy of emergency medicine ultrasound in the evaluation of abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Costantino TG, Bruno EC, Handly N, Dean AJ.
J Emerg Med. 2005 Nov;29(4):455-60.PMID: 16243207