Diagnosing Acute Heart Failure in the Pediatric Emergency Department Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound

Establishing the international research priorities for pediatric emergency medicine point‐of‐care ultrasound: A modified Delphi study

“…Cardiac failure in children is an infrequent presentation but can be mistaken for other pathologies, such as bronchiolitis or sepsis, given that it can be difficult to distinguish clinically 28 . POCUS is a way to directly visualize cardiac structure and function and has been demonstrated to be useful in diagnosing cardiac failure in the emergency department (ED) but large‐scale studies are still required 29 . Cardiac arrest in children is uncommon but generally has poor outcomes 30 .…”

“… 28 POCUS is a way to directly visualize cardiac structure and function and has been demonstrated to be useful in diagnosing cardiac failure in the emergency department (ED) but large‐scale studies are still required. 29 Cardiac arrest in children is uncommon but generally has poor outcomes. 30 The etiology of cardiac arrest in children is usually secondary to respiratory failure but other reversible causes, albeit rarer, may be identifiable using POCUS, such as cardiac tamponade, 31 tension pneumothorax, 32 and pulmonary embolism.…”

Hocus POCUS! Parental quantification of left ventricular ejection fraction using point of care ultrasound: fiction or reality?

“…While much data has now been published regarding point of care ultrasound in the pediatric emergency medicine and pediatric critical care, these data are largely regarding point of care ultrasound utilized by clinicians [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. Very few previous studies, to the authors' knowledge, have been published regarding point of care ultrasound utilized by parents.…”

“…A setting in which the use of point of cardiac ultrasound has become increasingly utilized is in the assessment of cardiac function. Several studies have now demonstrated that assessment of cardiac function using point of care ultrasound is feasible in children, with good agreement between emergency department physicians and cardiologists [3,4,8,10,13].…”

“…This includes use by attending physicians, fellow physicians, resident physicians, medical students, and nurses across a variety of subspecialties. Physician use of point of care ultrasound in the emergency department and intensive care unit has most been described, although use has been described in other subspecialties such as cardiology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and nephrology [3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. The current experience has demonstrated that not only is point of care ultrasound feasible but that it may improve care delivery.…”