Dear Ultrasound Insider,
Managing a patient's airways can be difficult in pediatric anesthesia. But sonography can help, offering accurate detection of endotracheal tube placement in children with challenging airways, according to a French research team.
In two studies presented at the American Society for Anesthesiologists meeting in San Francisco, researchers from Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille found excellent results using ultrasound in detecting tube placement in this patient population.
Staff writer Shalmali Pal was on hand at the meeting to cover the presentations. As an Ultrasound Insider subscriber, you have access to this Ultrasound Insider Exclusive story before it is published for the rest of our AuntMinnie.com members. To read more about the use of ultrasound in endotracheal tube placement, click here.
In other news, October is Ultrasound Awareness Month, and ultrasound has certainly attracted attention in the mainstream media recently. Early in October, preliminary results from the American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN)'s breast ultrasound trial were presented, finding that the use of ultrasound as an adjunct to mammography led to the detection of more cancers but also produced more false positives. Detailed results from the three-year trial are expected at next month's RSNA meeting in Chicago. For more information, click here.
Also this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration became involved in the investigation of deaths and serious reactions following use of echocardiography contrast agents, asking for black box warnings to be added for two agents. For that report, click here.
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