Alonso Marron, Michael S. Wolf, Marla Levine, Jeremy S. Boyd, Marta Hernanz-Schulman – The aim of this study was to investigate the role of point of care ultrasound (POCUS) as an alternative imaging modality to confirm the location of gastric and post-pyloric feeding tubes in patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This was a prospective descriptive study performed at a tertiary care children’s hospital.
Jeff Yang; Christine Rizkalla – A 26-day-old boy born at 39 weeks, 5 days via normal spontaneous vaginal delivery was referred to the pediatric emergency department by his pediatrician for evaluation of a left-sided neck mass.
Alisha Ching, Charles William Kropf – Application of ultrasound to evaluate pediatric respiratory disease in the emergency department setting is rapidly growing, particularly as we often weigh the risks of exposure to radiation with other readily available imaging modalities in the acute care setting.
Eric Scheier, MD; Benjamin Taragin, MD – Studies of pediatric appendicitis treated conservatively show a considerable rate of recurrence. Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) imaging at our facility is routinely performed for abdominal pain and may be more likely than radiology-performed ultrasound to encounter cases that then self-resolve. We present a case series collected from a POCUS quality assurance review from 2019 through 2022.
Stephanie R. Davenport; Nadya Ben Fadel; Jorge Davila; Nick Barrowman; Vid Bijelic; Allan E. Shefrin – Over the last 15 years, point of care ultrasound (POCUS) has emerged as one of the most important and most utilized tools in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM) [1,2]. What was initially used as a screening tool in the assessment of major traumas to help determine the requirements for further investigation or management is now used in over 40 clinical applications including the assessment of intra-abdominal hemorrhage, cardiac views to assess function and fluid, the identification of testicular torsion and the evaluation of skull fractures [1], to list a few.