Ultrasonography has been widely used in medicine for decades but often by specific users
such as cardiologists, obstetricians, and radiologists. In the last several years, the use of this …

Children with acute neurologic illness are at high risk of mortality and long-term neurologic
disability. Severe traumatic brain injury, cardiac arrest, stroke, and central nervous system …

Background Neuromonitoring is the use of continuous measures of brain physiology to
detect clinically important events in real-time. Neuromonitoring devices can be invasive or …

Transcranial Doppler ultrasonography (TCD) is being used in many pediatric intensive care
units (PICUs) to aid in the diagnosis and monitoring of children with known or suspected …

During the 1990s, the broad use of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) by nonradiologists
within the emergency department was met with misgivings. 1 Since that time, clinicians have …

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in children.
Improved methods of monitoring real-time cerebral physiology are needed to better …

The use of transcranial Doppler ultrasound (TCD) is increasing in frequency in the pediatric
intensive care unit. This review highlights some of the pertinent TCD applications for the …

Background Noninvasive neuromonitoring in critically ill children includes multiple
modalities that all intend to improve our understanding of acute and ongoing brain injury …

Background Cerebral malaria (CM) results in significant paediatric death and neurodisability
in sub-Saharan Africa. Several different alterations to typical Transcranial Doppler …

Background and purpose Transcranial doppler ultrasound (TCD) is a tool that diagnoses
and monitors pathophysiological changes to the cerebrovasculature. As cerebral blood flow …