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Focused Assessment with Sonography for Trauma

    • Recent studies indicate that the focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) examination has a more limited sensitivity for intra-abdominal injury than was initially reported
    • Validated assessments of FAST examiner skill are being developed to assess user competence and control for the factor of operator dependence
    • The extended FAST (E-FAST) examination is a reliable method for rapidly diagnosing pneumothorax and hemothorax at the bedside
    • Contrast-enhanced ultrasonography is an area of active research that uses a nonnephrotoxic contrast agent to improve ultrasonographic evaluation of solid-organ injuries 

Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Brain Failure and Brain Death

    • Improved understanding of altered levels of consciousness, particularly delirium
    • Criteria to define when death occurs
    • Optimization of potential organ donors

Pediatric Fever

    • Explores the more common diseases that may cause fevers in pediatric patients.
    • Provides algorithms to guide practitioners in managing a pediatric fever in various age groups.
    • Reinforces that antibiotics be reserved for clinically diagnosed bacterial infections. 

Pediatric Fever

Clifford C. Ellingson, MD, Dale P. Woolridge, MD, PhD
    • Explores the more common diseases that may cause fevers in pediatric patients.
    • Provides algorithms to guide practitioners in managing a pediatric fever in various age groups.
    • Reinforces that antibiotics be reserved for clinically diagnosed bacterial infections. 

Head and Neck Tumors in Children: Part II

Salim Afshar, DMD, MD, Jason W. Yu, DMD, MD
    • Increasingly detailed imaging afforded by modern MRI can be used as the only imaging modality to avoid radiation to the pediatric head neck. 
    • EXIT procedure should be considered to optimize safety at the time of delivery due to potential for severe airway obstruction.
    • Detailed history including age of onset and subsequent clinical course remains key components in making an accurate diagnosis.
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