Root Jeremy M, Abo Alyssa, Cohen Joanna
From the Emergency Medicine and Trauma Services, Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC.
Pediatr Emerg Care. 2018 Apr;34(4):286-287. doi: 10.1097/PEC.0000000000001406.
Traumatic renal injuries are more common in pediatrics because of the relatively larger size of the kidneys in the pediatric patient. Although computerized tomography remains the criterion standard for the initial evaluation of blunt renal trauma, there is evidence that renal ultrasound may serve a role in postinjury surveillance. Here, we present a case in which point-of-care ultrasound was used to image severe blunt renal trauma in a 17-year-old adolescent boy. In this case, point-of-care ultrasound identified severely distorted renal parenchyma after a grade 5 renal laceration was identified on computerized tomography scan.
