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Ultrasound-Guided Procedures Beyond Vascular Access

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Ultrasound-guided vascular access procedures have emerged as the standard of practice across many clinical settings. Ultrasound use by pediatric acute care providers now extends to many other commonly performed bedside procedures. Growing literature supports improved procedural success as well as reduced failure rates, need for multiple attempts, and overall lower complications rate when ultrasound technology is utilized in nonvascular access procedural applications. This chapter explores many nonvascular access procedural applications in which ultrasound is utilized in the acute care setting and describes methods by which to optimize clinical performance.

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Wenger, J., Chong, G. (2023). Ultrasound-Guided Procedures Beyond Vascular Access. In: Singh, Y., Tissot, C., Fraga, M.V., Conlon, T. (eds) Point-of-Care Ultrasound for the Neonatal and Pediatric Intensivist. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26538-9_19

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