Seeing Is Believing: Ultrasound in Pediatric Procedural Performance.
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In brief
In brief
Point-of-care ultrasound has become an essential tool for guiding pediatric procedures across emergency, ICU, and outpatient settings. Strong evidence supports its use for vascular access, lumbar puncture, fluid drainage, and soft tissue procedures, significantly improving success rates and patient safety in children.
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Point-of-care ultrasound is currently widely used across the landscape of pediatric care. Ultrasound machines are now smaller, are easier to use, and have much improved image quality. They have become common in emergency departments, ICUs, inpatient wards, and outpatient clinics. Recent growth of supportive evidence makes a strong case for using point-of-care ultrasound for pediatric interventions such as vascular access (in particular, central-line placement), lumbar puncture, fluid drainage (paracentesis, thoracentesis, pericardiocentesis), suprapubic aspiration, and soft tissue incision and drainage. Our review of this evidence reveals that point-of-care ultrasound has become a powerful tool for improving procedural success and patient safety. Pediatric patients and clinicians performing procedures stand to benefit greatly from point-of-care ultrasound, because seeing is believing.
doi: 10.1542/peds.2019-1401