title: Diagnostic Emergency Ultrasound: Assessment Techniques In The Pediatric Patient.
abstract: Emergency ultrasound is performed at the point of care to answer focused clinical questions in a rapid manner. Over the last 20 years, the use of this technique has grown rapidly, and it has become a core requirement in many emergency medicine residencies and in some pediatric emergency medicine fellowships. The use of emergency ultrasound in the pediatric setting is increasing due to the lack of ionizing radiation with these studies, as compared to computed tomography. Utilizing diagnostic ultrasound in the emergency department can allow clinicians to arrive at a diagnosis at the bedside rather than sending the patient out of the department for another study. This issue focuses on common indications for diagnostic ultrasound, as found in the pediatric literature or extrapolated from adult literature where pediatric evidence is scarce. Limitations, current trends, controversies, and future directions of diagnostic ultrasound in the emergency department are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Emergency Ultrasound, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY.
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guttman
authors.affiliation: Director, Emergency Ultrasound, Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
authors.forename: Bret P
authors.initials: BP
authors.lastname: Nelson
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D004630:Emergencies; D004635:Emergency Medicine; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D019095:Point-of-Care Systems; D014463:Ultrasonography