Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is a safe, effective imaging modality with a rapidly expanding array of lifesaving, timesaving and cost-saving applications in pediatric emergency medicine (PEM).

The prevalence of hip dysplasia and hip dislocation is 2 to 5%—a thousand times that of all other named (1) pediatric hip disorders, with the exception of transient synovitis (0.076%). Hip dysplasia ...

The Ortolani maneuver can help show hips that are dislocated when the infant is in a resting position. In this test, the trained examiner attempts to reduce an already dislocated hip. The infant’s ...

Hip dysplasia may not be obvious in newborns, but the disorder may already be affecting babies’ development. And the sooner parents and caregivers get an evaluation and treatment, the easier the fix, ...

Vatican City (Agenzia Fides) – On February 12-13, at the Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital, the Austrian orthopedic Reinhard Graf, inventor of the ultrasonic method for the study of the femoral area in ...

Dynamic hip ultrasonography: Seeing hips in motion Boston Children's is a pioneer in the use of dynamic hip ultrasound to diagnose hip injuries. In 2019, Stracciolini and her colleagues published a ...

The Pediatric Point-Of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital, was established in 2015, and is the only pediatric POCUS fellowship in the South ...

A common congenital condition in which a child's upper thighbone is dislocated from the hip socket is labeled in medical parlance as developmental dislocation of the hip (DDH). A common congenital ...

MANCHESTER — Children who experience constant, unexplained hip pain pose clinical challenges for orthopaedic surgeons, but one British team said MRI can be valuable in helping to make an accurate ...