Halm Brunhild M, Eakin Paul J, Franke Adrian A
John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96813, USA.
Hawaii Med J. 2010 Sep;69(9):208-11.
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 pediatric emergency medicine attending. Knowledge of the sonographic characteristics of appendicitis can help the physician in the prompt diagnosis of this condition, thereby reducing morbidity and mortality that may result from a delay in diagnosis.
在过去十年中,床旁超声(POC US)在成人急诊医学中因各种适应症而越来越多地被应用。儿科急诊医学对床旁超声的接受程度要慢得多。作者报告了一例15岁男孩,他因腹痛到儿科急诊科就诊。一名儿科急诊医学主治医师通过实时床旁超声做出了阑尾炎的诊断。了解阑尾炎的超声特征有助于医生及时诊断这种疾病,从而降低因诊断延迟可能导致的发病率和死亡率。