Pediatric ultrasound. Applications in the emergency department

Emergency Medicine Clinics of North America

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 809-829

  Leeson, Kimberly ^a   Leeson, Ben ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY CORPUS CHRISTI   (United States)

Author keywords

Bedside ultrasound; Emergency department; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; APPENDICITIS; ARTHROCENTESIS; BEDSIDE ULTRASOUND; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY ULTRASOUND; EMERGENCY WARD; ENDOTRACHEAL INTUBATION; FOCUSED ASSESSMENT WITH SONOGRAPHY IN TRAUMA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; HYPOTENSION; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NERVE BLOCK; OBSTETRICS; PEDIATRICS; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; REVIEW; SKULL FRACTURE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TRANSFONTANELLAR ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND; URINARY TRACT; VASCULAR ACCESS;

BEDSIDE ULTRASOUND; EMERGENCY DEPARTMENT; PEDIATRICS;

APPENDICITIS; CHILD; CHOLECYSTITIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PYLORIC STENOSIS, HYPERTROPHIC; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84881115138     PISSN: 07338627     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.emc.2013.05.005     Document Type: Review

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