Non-radiologist-performed abdominal point-of-care ultrasonography in paediatrics - a scoping review.
Pediatr Radiol
; 51(8): 1386-1399, 2021 Jul.
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| ID: mdl-33837798
ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Historically, US in the paediatric setting has mostly been the domain of radiologists. However, in the last decade, there has been an uptake of non-radiologist point-of-care US.OBJECTIVE:
To gain an overview of abdominal non-radiologist point-of-care US in paediatrics. MATERIALS ANDMETHODS:
We conducted a scoping review regarding the uses of abdominal non-radiologist point-of-care US, quality of examinations and training, patient perspective, financial costs and legal consequences following the use of non-radiologist point-of-care US. We conducted an advanced search of the following databases Medline, Embase and Web of Science Conference Proceedings. We included published original research studies describing abdominal non-radiologist point-of-care US in children. We limited studies to English-language articles from Western countries.RESULTS:
We found a total of 5,092 publications and selected 106 publications for inclusion 39 studies and 51 case reports or case series on the state-of-art of abdominal non-radiologist point-of-care US, 14 on training of non-radiologists, and 1 each on possible harms following non-radiologist point-of-care US and patient satisfaction. According to included studies, non-radiologist point-of-care US is increasingly used, but no standardised training guidelines exist. We found no studies regarding the financial consequences of non-radiologist point-of-care US.CONCLUSION:
This scoping review supports the further development of non-radiologist point-of-care US and underlines the need for consensus on who can do which examination after which level of training among US performers. More research is needed on training non-radiologists and on the costs-to-benefits of non-radiologist point-of-care US.Key words
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Collection:
01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pediatrics
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Point-of-Care Systems
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Systematic_reviews
Limits:
Child
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Pediatr Radiol
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Netherlands