"Children with abdominal pain are a diagnostic conundrum. On the one hand those who have appendicitis need to be diagnosed in a timely manner, but on the other hand the most common diagnostic tool we ...

Researchers found that large pediatric centers achieve low rates of delayed diagnosis of appendicitis while also having the lowest rates of CT use.

Abdominal pain is among the most common reasons children are taken to the emergency department. A small proportion of them ...

An abdominal ultrasound uses sound waves to make images of the abdomen (belly). An ultrasound machine sends sound waves into the abdominal area and images are recorded on a computer. The ...

2 Centre Universitaire de L'université Laval (CHUL), CHU de Quebec. A short cut review was carried out to establish whether point-of-care abdominal ultrasound could affect the emergency department (ED ...