Utility of the Color-Coded Duplex Neurosonographic Spectrum in Critically Ill Children in Resource-Limited Centers: A Case Series

Abstract

\n Ultrasound in pediatric neurocritical care has a wide variety of indications, such as the study of vasospasm in subarachnoid hemorrhage, flow changes in intracranial stenosis, endocranial hypertension and to evaluate some therapeutic measures. The following is a series of five most relevant cases collected from Pediatric Intensive Care with abnormal images in transcranial duplex (TCD) and their typical findings in this type of studies. Transcranial duplex offers a diagnostic method of rapid evaluation that provides reliable information for decision making in pediatric intensive care, but it is a tool with which there is little experience in the country, so these findings are didactic and should be complemented with studies of greater diagnostic relevance.