Bedside ultrasound in pediatric emergency medicine

Pediatrics

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Levy, Jason A ^a,c   Noble, Vicki E ^b  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Division of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedside ultrasound; Emergency ultrasound; Sonography; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL INJURY; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABSCESS; ACUTE SCROTUM; BEDSIDE ULTRASOUND; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; BLUNT TRAUMA; CELLULITIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ECTOPIC PREGNANCY; EFFUSION; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FOREIGN BODY; FRACTURE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; HEAD INJURY; HEART ARREST; HEART TAMPONADE; HIP EFFUSION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INTRACRANIAL PRESSURE; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SUPRAPUBIC ASPIRATION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; VASCULAR ACCESS; CHILD; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PEDIATRICS;

CHILD; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 44449093679     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2007-1816     Document Type: Review

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