Chest ultrasound can serve as a viable alternative to chest CT in the evaluation of pediatric patients with complicated pneumonia and parapneumonic effusion (a build-up of fluid between the lung ...

Ultrasonography can be used to examine the tissue layers of the chest wall. The ultrasound beam travels through the administered gel and subsequently penetrates skin, subcutaneous tissue, the ...

Feasibility and Safety of Substituting Lung Ultrasound for Chest X-ray When Diagnosing Pneumonia in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Chest, 2016; DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2016.02.643; ...

Ultrasound imaging can be used to confirm the placement of a central line, ... Cite this: Bedside Ultrasound Rivals Chest X-ray in Catheter Placement - Medscape - Apr 11, 2013.

Ultrasound may be as accurate as chest X-ray in detecting pneumonia in children, according to study findings presented at the 2014 European Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Annual Meeting.

The ultrasound-guided insertion of a small-bore catheter is preferable to other techniques (e.g., single thoracentesis or the insertion of an intercostal, large-bore chest tube) since this ...

In the study, performed at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, N.Y., both chest CT and chest ultrasound were performed on 19 children with ...

Drs Todd A. Florin and Russ Horowitz discuss point-of-care lung ultrasound in the diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia and methods for involving patients and parents in the diagnostic process.

(HealthDay News) — Ultrasound (US) could replace chest radiography (CXR) for detecting pneumonia in children, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the European Society for ...