Femur Fracture Diagnosis and Management Aided by Point-of-Care Ultrasonography.

We describe a point-of-care ultrasonography to facilitate diagnosis of a femur fracture in a 13-year-old adolescent boy. Rapid detection of the fracture, which was not possible by physical examination alone, permitted immediate stabilization of the leg with traction, rapid communication with orthopedic surgeons, and facilitated analgesic therapy before transport and movement to obtain radiographs.

Temporal Artery Thermometry to Detect Pediatric Fever.

This research investigated effectiveness of temporal artery thermometry (TAT) to detect high rectal fever in children ≥ 91 days and ≤ 4 years old. Rectal temperature was initially evaluated immediately followed by TAT. As expected, the difference between mean rectal (38.