• Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med · May 2018

    Case Reports

    Papilledema: Point-of-Care Ultrasound Diagnosis in the Emergency Department.

    • Joseph R Sinnott, Mohammad R Mohebbi, and Timothy Koboldt.
    • University of Missouri School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine, Columbia, Missouri.
    • Clin Pract Cases Emerg Med. 2018 May 1; 2 (2): 125-127.

    AbstractPoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has the potential to diagnose papilledema, a sign of increased intracranial pressure, through optic disc elevation as well as optic nerve sheath diameter measurements. Idiopathic intracranial hypertension (IIH) is a syndrome resulting in increased intracranial pressure. We present a case of IIH where the emergency physician diagnosed papilledema by POCUS via presence of both optic disc elevation and a widened optic nerve sheath diameter.

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