Over the past decade Point/of/Care Ultrasound (POC US) is increasingly performed in adult emergency medicine for a variety of indications. Pediatric emergency medicine has been much slower to embrace POC US. The authors report a case of a 15/year/old boy that presented to the pediatric emergency department with abdominal pain. A diagnosis of appendicitis was made using real/time POC US by a ped...

Pediatric hospital medicine programs have an established place in pediatric medicine. This statement speaks to the expanded roles and responsibilities of pediatric hospitalists and their integrated role among the community of pediatricians who care for children within and outside of the hospital setting. The statement is a revision of the policy written by Dr Jack Percelay in 2005 and reaffi rm...

From the Institute for Pediatric Innovation, Boston, MA; Department of Pediatrics, Weil Medical College of Cornell University, New York, NY; Division of Pediatric Clinical Pharmacology, Children’s National Medical Center and Departments of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, and Physiology, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC; Tufts University School of Med...

Address: 1Cardiorenal Research Laboratory and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, 2Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, 3Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, 4Division of Biostati...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to determine the level of knowledge, comfort, and training related to the medical management of child abuse among pediatrics, emergency medicine, and family medicine residents. METHODS Surveys were administered to program directors and third-year residents at 67 residency programs. The resident survey included a 24-item quiz to assess knowledge regard...

Ferda Özbay Hoşnut1, Figen Özçay1, Barış Malbora2, Şamil Hızlı3, namık Özbek4 1Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Ankara, Turkey 2Dr. Sami Ulus Research and Training Hospital of Women’s and Children’s Health and Diseases, Ankara, Turkey 3Dr. Sami Ulus Research and Training Hospital of Women’s and Children’s Health and Dis...

Address: 1Cardiorenal Research Laboratory and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, 2Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, 3Division of Epidemiology, Mayo Clinic and Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota, USA, 4Division of Biostati...

The Queen Silvia Children's Hospital, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden Institute of Clinical Sciences, Department of Pediatrics, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, Sweden Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bournemouth University, Bournemouth, UK Neurology Division, Nemours Children's Health System, Jacksonville, Florida Clinique Pediatrique, Centre Ho...