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Need for Point of Care Ultrasound in Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology

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Ultrasonography has changed the management of critically-ill children by providing immediate diagnostic information previously unavailable through physical examination or other non-invasive bedside testing. Ultrasonography enhances diagnostic precision, monitoring of treatments, and visualization to aid in procedures.

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  1. University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Michael L. Moritz

  2. Division of Pediatric Nephrology, Division of Pediatric Dialysis, Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Michael L. Moritz

  3. Department of Pediatric Kidney Disease/Hypertension, Akron Nephrology Associates, AGMC, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  4. Rebecca D. Considine Research Institute, Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  5. Faculty of Internal Medicine, Northeast Ohio Medical University, Rootstown, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  6. Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  7. Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon, Haryana, India

    Sidharth Kumar Sethi

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  1. Kidney and Urology Institute, Medanta, The Medicity, Gurugram, Haryana, India

    Sidharth Kumar Sethi

  2. Akron Children’s Hospital, Cleveland Clinic Akron General, Akron, OH, USA

    Rupesh Raina

  3. Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

    Mignon McCulloch

  4. VCU School of Medicine, Children’s Hospital of Richmond, Richmond, VA, USA

    Timothy E. Bunchman

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Moritz, M.L., Raina, R., Sethi, S.K. (2021). Need for Point of Care Ultrasound in Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology. In: Sethi, S.K., Raina, R., McCulloch, M., Bunchman, T.E. (eds) Advances in Critical Care Pediatric Nephrology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4554-6_1

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