Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
Indications Print Section Listen • Vomiting. • Hematemesis. • Melena. • Chronic diarrhea. • Failure to thrive. • Abdominal pain. • Dysphagia, odynophagia. • Foreign body. • Caustic ingestion. •…
PEDIATRICS
Exchange Transfusion of the Newborn
Indications Print Section Listen • Prevent neurotoxicity induced by hyperbilirubinemia. • Jaundice and intermediate to advanced stages of acute bilirubin encephalopathy are present even if the serum bilirubin level does…
Catheter Ablation
Indications Print Section Listen • Treatment of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT). • Life-threatening arrhythmia unresponsive to medications. • Younger children with arrhythmia refractory to antiarrhythmic medications. • Older children with recurrent…
Percutaneous Kidney Biopsy
Indications Print Section Listen • Persistent or recurrent gross hematuria of glomerular origin (ie, not related to urinary infection or bladder abnormalities). • Persistent, nonorthostatic proteinuria. • Nephrotic syndrome. •…
Reduction and Splinting Techniques
Shoulder Reduction Print Section Listen Indications • Any dislocated shoulder (ie, the humeral head is not in concentric relationship within the glenoid fossa). | Download (.pdf) | Print • An…
Echocardiography
Indications Print Section Listen | Download (.pdf) | Print • Guidelines for the clinical application of echocardiography have been formulated by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart…
Tilt-Table Testing
Indications Print Section Listen • Evaluation of syncope of uncertain origin. • Evaluation of symptoms suggestive of autonomic dysfunction, such as • Presyncope. • Atypical seizures. • Orthostatic symptoms. •…
Intracardiac Electrophysiology Studies
Indications Print Section Listen • Evaluation of tachycardia mechanism, in preparation for catheter ablation procedure. • Evaluation of wide QRS tachycardia, where ECG interpretation does not clarify mechanism of tachycardia….
Cardiac Catheterization
Indications Print Section Listen | Download (.pdf) | Print • Cardiac catheterization can be roughly divided into diagnostic and therapeutic procedures although there is often overlap between the two. Diagnostic…
Venous Cutdown
Indications Print Section Listen • In general, the cutdown procedure is used for the operative placement of an intermediate or long-term central catheter or in an emergency setting when percutaneous…
