• Thomas Lee, Bradley Goldberg, Kathryn Pade, Atim Uya, Stephanie Cohen, Kelly Bergmann, Maher Abulfaraj, LamSamuel H FSHFDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Sutter Medical Center Sacramento, Sacramento, California., and Marsha Elkhunovich.
• From the Emergency Department, Children's Hospital Los Angeles, Los Angeles.
• Pediatr Emerg Care. 2021 Dec 1; 37 (12): 632636632-636.

AbstractPoint-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has been described as a useful tool for identification of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in adults and children. Although several case reports describe POCUS findings in children with COVID-19, to our knowledge, there have been no published multicenter case series describing the large heterogeneity in lung POCUS findings in pediatric COVID-19. This series includes 7 symptomatic patients with COVID-19 who had a lung POCUS performed at 6 institutions by pediatric emergency attendings and fellows. The findings were variable, ranging from no findings to the appearance of B-lines, pleural abnormalities, consolidations, and a pleural effusion. Further studies are needed to improve our understanding, characterization, and prognostic correlation of POCUS findings in this novel disease in children.Copyright © 2021 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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