Full Description
This book provides evidence-based guidance for pediatric imaging to radiologists, pediatricians, and all subspecialists caring for children, as well as policy advocates. While the majority of pediatric radiology books concentrate on diagnosis, this book highlights how imaging should be used in optimal care, allowing comparisons between different modalities and addressing follow up, complications and the issue of timing of imaging.
The primary objective of this book is to provide a summary of appropriate imaging use in terms of modality and timing based on the best available evidence. The book therefore acts as a resource for optimized clinical care of children and effective decision-making. A secondary objective is to collate the evidence-based practices that constitute quality care for children in the setting of value-based imaging. Radiologists are often in the position of helping clinicians decide when and how to image children with suspected diseases or confirmed diagnoses. However, traditional residency training has done little to fulfill the need for this up-to-date evidence knowledge. Moreover, in spite of furthering subspecialization of the field, the great majority of children's imaging (and care) occur outside of children's hospitals, where clinicians and radiologist might need this type of general guidance for establishing best-practices.
The book is divided in two parts, non-diagnostic considerations such as evidence-based imaging, safety, value, and the practice of radiology in low resource settings and a second larger clinical component divided in prenatal, oncology, neurological, musculoskeletal, cardiothoracic, and abdominal imaging. This new edition incorporates changes in practice and guidelines in the decade since the first edition was written with many new chapters in emerging topics including prenatal, oncology and neurological imaging. This is an ideal guide for radiologists, pediatricians, policy advocates, and all healthcare professionals caring for children.
Contents
Part I: Imaging Children: Principles, Methodology, and Risks.- Principles of Evidence-Based Imaging.- Evidence Synthesis in Pediatric Radiology: Demonstrating Value.- Imaging Associated Risks: Radiation, Sedation and Children Specific Safety Concerns.- Quality Improvement in Pediatric Radiology.- Pediatric imaging in Low-Resource Settings.- Part II Prenatal Imaging.- Fetal Anomalies.- Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia and Lung Lesions.- Ventriculomegaly.- Part III Neurological Imaging.- Headache.- Seizures.- Neonatal Hypoxic-Ischemic Injury.- Neonatal brain hemorrhage.- Brain Neoplasm.- Head and Neck Infections.- Imaging of Spinal Dysraphism.- Part IV Musculoskeletal Imaging.- Scoliosis.- Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease.- Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis.- Developmental Dysplasia of the Hip.- Knee and Shoulder Sports Injuries.- Complex fractures: Hip, Elbow and Ankle.- Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.- Hematogenous Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis.- Part V Cardiothoracic Imaging.- Asthma.- Pediatric airway.- Childhood Interstitial Lung Disease.- Congenital Heart Disease.- Congenital Disease of the Aortic Arch: Coarctation and Arch Anomalies.- Chronic Lung Disease of prematurity.- Chest Infections.- Part VI Abdominal Imaging.- Intussusception in Children: Diagnostic Imaging and Treatment.- Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children.- Imaging of Clinically Suspected Malrotation in Children.- Imaging of Appendicitis in Pediatric Patients.- Imaging of Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (IHPS).- Imaging of Nephrolithiasis and Urinary Tract Calculi in Children.- Urinary Tract Infection in Infants and Children.- Imaging of Female Children and Adolescents with abdominopelvic pain Caused by Gynecological Pathologies.- Imaging of Boys with an Acute Scrotum: Differentiation of Testicular Torsion From Other Cause.- UTD.- Part IV Pediatric Oncology and Multisystemic Disease.- Pediatric Bone Tumors: Osteosarcoma and Ewing Sarcoma.- Mediastinal Masses.- Pediatric Abdominal Tumors: Neuroblastoma.- Liver masses.- Cancer pre-disposition syndromes.- Sickle Cell Disease and Stroke.- Cystic Fibrosis.- Part VI Trauma and Emergency.- Foreign Bodies.- Traumatic Brain Injury in Children.- Abusive Head Trauma.- Non-CNS Abusive Trauma.- Spine Trauma.- Blunt Trauma to the Pediatric Torso.- Part VII Interventional Radiology.- Imaged-guided Management of Pleural Effusions.- Imaged-guided Management of Abdominal Abscesses.- Vascular Access in Children.- Imaging guided biopsies.- Management of Vascular Anomalies.
