Emergency Department Resource Use in Pediatric Pneumonia: Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasonography versus Chest Radiography.

Maya Harel-SterlingMamadou DialloSabeena SanthirakumaranTimea MaximMark Tessaro

Published in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2018)

In children undergoing imaging for suspected CAP in our pediatric ED, point-of-care lung US by pediatric emergency medicine physicians was associated with decreased time and cost compared with chest radiography.

Keyphrases

emergency department
emergency medicine
primary care
high resolution
young adults
image quality
computed tomography
intensive care unit
adverse drug