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Creation of a High‐fidelity, Low‐cost Pediatric Skull Fracture Ultrasound Phantom
Author(s) -
Soucy Zachary P.,
Mills Lisa,
Rose John S.,
Kelley Kenneth,
Ramirez Francisco,
Kuppermann Nathan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/ultra.34.8.1473
Subject(s) - medicine , point of care ultrasound , skull , ultrasound , imaging phantom , skull fracture , radiology , fidelity , medical physics , surgery , computer science , telecommunications
Over the past decade, point‐of‐care ultrasound has become a common tool used for both procedures and diagnosis. Developing high‐fidelity phantoms is critical for training in new and novel point‐of‐care ultrasound applications. Detecting skull fractures on ultrasound imaging in the younger‐than‐2‐year‐old patient is an emerging area of point‐of‐care ultrasound research. Identifying a skull fracture on ultrasound imaging in this age group requires knowledge of the appearance and location of sutures to distinguish them from fractures. There are currently no commercially available pediatric skull fracture models. We outline a novel approach to building a cost‐effective, simple, high‐fidelity pediatric skull fracture phantom to meet a unique training requirement.