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This concise, portable manual provides practitioners and future practitioners with a basic guide to pediatric emergency ultrasound, enabling them to learn the fundamentals of bedside ultrasound and use these to refresh their skills prior to, or when, performing it on a patient.
List of contents
CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. Cardiac. Inferior vena cava.
RESPIRAT ORY SYSTEM. Pulmonary.
MUSCULOSKELETA L SYSTEM. Long bone. Clavicle. Shoulder. Elbow. Hip. Knee. Ankle.
INTEGUMENTAR Y SYSTEM. Soft-tissue. Neck.
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. Appendix. Intussusception. Pylorus. Biliary.
TRAUMA. Focused assessment sonography in trauma (FAST).
RENAL, URINARY, AND REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEMS. Renal. First trimester pregnancy. Testicular.
PROCEDURAL. Femoral nerve block. Intraosseous placement. Lumbar puncture. Endotracheal tube confirmation. Peripheral intravenous placement. Upper extremity nerve blocks. Central line placement.
NERVOUS SYSTEM. Ocular.
About the author
Marsha Elkhunovich is Assistant Professor, Pediatric Emergency Medicine; Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound Director, Emergency & Transport Medicine, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine/University of Southern California, USA
Tarina Kang is Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, Keck Scbhool of Medicine/University of Southern California, USA
