• Pediatric emergency care · Mar 2024

    Qualitative Point-of-Care Ultrasound Enema Management for Constipation.

    • Antonio Riera and Uma P Phatak.
    • From the Yale University School of Medicine, Pediatric Emergency Medicine.
    • Pediatr Emerg Care. 2024 Mar 1; 40 (3): 239242239-242.

    AbstractWe discuss 10 cases where the qualitative evaluation of hard stool in the rectum with point-of-care ultrasound helped guide enema administration in a pediatric emergency department. Point-of-care ultrasound findings were especially valuable in cases where the presenting symptoms were undifferentiated, a language barrier was present, or the guardian and child denied that constipation was an active problem. When sodium phosphate enema administration was done in the pediatric emergency department, evacuation of the rectal stool burden was observed in most cases before final disposition.Copyright © 2023 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.

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