Pediatric Emergency Ultrasound - A Concise Guide

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Ultrasound probes

1. Cardiac

2. Inferior vena cava

3. Pulmonary

4. Long bone

5. Clavicle

6. Shoulder

7. Elbow

8. Hip

9. Knee

10. Ankle

11. Soft-tissue

12. Neck

13. Appendix

14. Intussusception

15. Pylorus

16. Biliary

17. Focused assessment sonography in trauma (FAST)

18. Renal

19. First trimester pregnancy

20. Testicular

21. Femoral nerve block

22. Intraosseous placement

23. Lumbar puncture

24. Endotracheal tube confirmation

25. Peripheral intravenous placement

26. Upper extremity nerve blocks

27. Central line placement

28. Ocular