Key result
Pediatric echocardiography demands prior clinical assessment due to inherent ultrasound and resource limitations.
Why the study?
The expanding versatility of pediatric echocardiography and its inherent limitations require careful and thoughtful clinical use in children.
Clinical assessment remains a critical prelude to the discriminate use of echocardiography in the pediatric cardiovascular system.
Clinical assessment should precede pediatric echocardiography; leaves open prospective validation of resource-efficient protocols.
Echocardiography is an extraordinarily useful imaging technique in fetuses, infants, children, and adolescents. Recent technologic innovations have expanded its versatility in the pediatric population. However, limited societal resources, limitations inherent to ultrasound imaging, and numerous imaging options even within the field of pediatric echocardiography necessitate the discriminate and thoughtful use of echocardiography in children. The clinical assessment remains a critical prelude to echocardiographic examination of the pediatric cardiovascular system.
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Phoon et al. (1999) conducted a review in Pediatric cardiovascular conditions. Pediatric echocardiography was evaluated. Echocardiography is a versatile imaging technique in pediatric patients, but its thoughtful use requires clinical assessment as a critical prelude due to inherent ultrasound and resource limitations.
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