An 85-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with complaints of shortness of breath on exertion. Her medical history was significant for hypertension, pulmonary embolism and stage III chronic kidney disease. She was diagnosed with severe decompensated pulmonary hypertension and started to improve with diuretics. While hospitalized, she suffered an asystolic arrest and was successfully resuscitated. As a result of chest compressions, the patient developed multiple anterior rib fractures.

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... hin a few days of recovering from her cardiac arrest, she was anticoagulated with enoxaparin as a bridge to warfarin for her prior history of pulmonary embolism. Five days after initiation of enoxaparin and warfarin, she was noted to have an acute drop in her hemoglobin from 8 g/dl to 5 g/dl. A thorough physical examination revealed a large area of swelling in her left anterior chest wall. Point-of-care ultrasound was utilized to image this area of swelling centered at the 3rd intercostal space between the midclavicular and anterior axillary line (Figures 1 and 2) . Figure 1. Ultrasound image of the chest wall in the sagittal plane.