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International evidence-based guidelines on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for critically ill neonates and children issued by the POCUS Working Group of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)
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BACKGROUND: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is nowadays an essential tool in critical care. Its role seems more important in neonates and children where other monitoring techniques may be unavailable. POCUS Working Group of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) aimed to provide evidence-based clinical guidelines for the use of POCUS in critically ill neonates and children. METHODS: Creation of an international Euro-American panel of paediatric and neonatal intensivists expert in POCUS and systematic review of relevant literature. A literature search was performed, and the level of evidence was assessed according to a GRADE method. Recommendations were developed through discussions managed following a Quaker-based consensus technique and evaluating appropriateness using a modified blind RAND/UCLA voting method. AGREE statement was followed to prepare this document. RESULTS: Panellists agreed on 39 out of 41 recommendations for the use of cardiac, lung, vascular, cerebral and abdominal POCUS in critically ill neonates and children. Recommendations were mostly (28 out of 39) based on moderate quality of evidence (B and C). CONCLUSIONS: Evidence-based guidelines for the use of POCUS in critically ill neonates and children are now available. They will be useful to optimise the use of POCUS, training programs and further research, which are urgently needed given the weak quality of evidence available.
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- Authors
- Singh, Y., Tissot, C., Fraga, M. V., Yousef, N., Cortes, R. G., Lopez, J., Sanchez-de-Toledo, J., Brierley, J., Colunga, J. M., Raffaj, D., Da Cruz, E., Durand, P., Kenderessy, P., Lang, H.-J., Nishisaki, A., Kneyber, M. C., Tissieres, P., Conlon, T. W., & De Luca, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Cambridge (GB)
- Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris (FR)
- Great Ormond Street Hospital (GB)
- Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ES)
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (GB)
- Médecins Sans Frontières (CH)
- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (US)
- University Medical Center Groningen (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Singh, Yogen
- ORCID
- Venue
- Critical Care
- Published
- 2020-02-24
- Volume
- 24
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 65-65
- ISSN
- 1364-8535 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC7041196
- OpenAlex
- W3007973847
- Cited by
- 659
- References
- 176
- Citations by year
- 2026: 105 · 2025: 107 · 2024: 80 · 2023: 115 · 2022: 124 · 2021: 81 · 2020: 43
- FWCI
- 57.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
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- Critical Care (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Apollo (University of Cambridge) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Apollo (cc-by)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine › Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine › Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Surgery › Hemodynamic Monitoring and Therapy
- Keywords
- point-of-care ultrasound, critically ill neonates, critically ill children, echocardiography, lung ultrasound, vascular ultrasound, cerebral ultrasound, abdominal ultrasound, pediatric intensive care, neonatal intensive care, ultrasound training
- MeSH terms
- Systematic Reviews as Topic, Critical Care, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Intensive Care Units, Neonatal, Ultrasonography, Intensive Care, Neonatal, Critical Illness, Point-of-Care Systems
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