RT Book, Section
A1 Dubrovsky, Alexander Sasha
A1 Seguin, Jade
A2 Tenenbein, Milton
A2 Macias, Charles G.
A2 Sharieff, Ghazala Q.
A2 Yamamoto, Loren G.
A2 Schafermeyer, Robert
SR Print(0)
ID 1155167973
T1 Pediatric Point-of-Care Ultrasound (P-POCUS)
T2 Strange and Schafermeyer's Pediatric Emergency Medicine, 5e
YR 2019
FD 2019
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259860751
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155167973
RD 2024/04/19
AB Focused  assessment  with  sonography  in  trauma  (FAST)  in  the  hypotensive  child  allows  for  rapid  identification  of  life-threatening  intraabdominal  hemorrhage.  In  the  stable  traumatized  child,  serial  FAST  improves  the  identification  of  occult  intraabdominal  injuries  and  may  prove  to  be  a  useful  screening  tool  aimed  at  reducing  the  number  of  computed  tomography  (CT)  scans  obtained.Pediatric  point-of-care  ultrasound  (P-POCUS)  of  the  lungs  is  proving  to  be  a  highly  useful  application  allowing  for  the  accurate  diagnosis  of  lung  pathologies  among  children  with  undifferentiated  respiratory  symptoms  (e.g.,  pneumonia,  pneumothorax).P-POCUS  allows  for  the  more  accurate  identification  of  skin  and  soft-tissue  infections  requiring  incision  and  drainage,  as  well  as  of  subcutaneous  foreign  bodies.P-POCUS  can  be  used  to  diagnose  fractures,  joint  effusions,  and  can  guide  closed  reductions  of  long  bone  fractures.