The Inter-Rater Reliability of Pediatric Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound Interpretation in Children with Acute Respiratory Failure.
Ryan L DeSantiEileen A CowanPierre D KoryMichael R LasarevJessica SchmidtAwni M Al-SubuPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2021)
Evidence supporting the evaluation of neonatal and adult patients with POC-LUS should not be extrapolated to critically ill pediatric patients. This study adds to the evidence supporting use of POC-LUS in the PICU by demonstrating moderate agreement between PICU intensivist and expert-derived POC-LUS diagnoses.