Tommaso Bellini, Benedetta Chianucci, Matteo D'Alessandro, Margherita Ricci, Maria Grazia Calevo, Silvia Misley, Emanuela Piccotti, Andrea Moscatelli
BACKGROUNDS: Dehydration is among the most common causes of Pediatric Emergency Department admission; however, no clinical signs, symptoms, or biomarkers have demonstrated sufficient sensitivity, specificity, or reliability to predict dehydration. METHODS: We conducted a prospective, monocentric, observational study at Giannina Gaslini Hospital, a tertiary care pediatric hospital. Our study aimed to compare inferior vena cava ultrasound measurement with volume depletion biomarkers to understand if point-of-care ultrasound could help grade, evaluate, and better manage dehydration in children presenting to the pediatric emergency department...
February 21, 2024: The ultrasound journal