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Saul Flores1, Erik Su2, Justin M Moher3
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Critical Care and Cardiology, Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX.
Insights
Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly vital in patient care, especially in pediatrics and critical situations. This review covers POCUS history, applications in intensive care, cardiology, and emergency departments.
Area of Science:
- Medical Imaging
- Point-of-Care Diagnostics
- Ultrasound Technology
Background:
- Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) has seen significant growth in clinical practice.
- POCUS plays a crucial role in guiding invasive procedures.
- Its application has broadened across adult, pediatric, and neonatal healthcare settings.
Purpose of the Study:
- To review the historical development of POCUS.
- To explore the expanding role of POCUS in various medical subspecialties.
- To highlight POCUS applications in critical care scenarios.
Main Methods:
- Literature review of historical aspects of POCUS.
- Synthesis of current POCUS applications in diverse clinical areas.
- Examination of POCUS utility in pediatric critical care, including cardiac arrest and ECMO.
Main Results:
- POCUS is integral to numerous subspecialties, including pediatrics.
- It is essential for assessing myocardial function during cardiac arrest.
- Neurological evaluations and extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) deployment benefit from POCUS.
Conclusions:
- POCUS has become indispensable in modern patient care.
- Its utility extends from routine evaluations to complex critical interventions.
- Future applications in intensive care, cardiology, and emergency medicine are expanding.
Abstract:
Point-of-Care-Ultrasound (POCUS) has encountered a tremendous expansion in patient care. POCUS has taken a central role during invasive procedures. POCUS has expanded to most subspecialties from adult to pediatric and neonatal health care. POCUS in pediatrics has also become part of specific critical situations such as myocardial function assessment during cardiac arrest, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation deployment and neurological evaluation. In this review we will go over the most important historical aspects of POCUS. We will also review important aspects of POCUS in the intensive care unit, cardiologist evaluation and in the emergency department among others.
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