Pediatric emergency care
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Pediatric emergency care · Dec 2013
Development and Evaluation of a Program for the Use of Ultrasound for Central Venous Catheter Placement in a Pediatric Emergency Department.
A growing body of literature supports the use of ultrasound (US) to assist central venous catheter (CVC) placement, and in many settings, this has become the standard of care. However, this remains a relatively new and uncommonly performed procedure for pediatric emergency medicine physicians. ⋯ The development of an emergency US program was associated with significantly increased physician use of US for CVC placement.