Curriculum and Recommendations for Study
Pediatric Emergencies: Carols J. Sivit, MD
Case Illustration Editor: Jason Rexroad, MD

Brain Trauma Cephalohematoma and capput succinadeum Unintentional blunt and penetrating Intentional (Battered child) Infection TORCH infections Meningitis, cerebritis, cerebral abscess Mastoiditis Non-traumatic hemorrhage Neonatal germinal matrix hemorrhage AVM, aneurysm, moya-moya, coagulation disorders Cerebral ischemia Perinatal brain injury Sickle cell disease Imaging the child with seizures Head & Neck Trauma Facial (orbit, zygoma, maxilla, mandible, frontal, nasal) Infection Croup Epiglottitis Retropharyngeal abscess Parotitis Orbital cellulitis Spine Trauma Cervical spine Thoracic spine Lumbar spine Infection Osteomyelitis/discitis Epidural abscess Miscellaneous Imaging the child with acute back pain Chest Trauma Pulmonary contusion/laceration Thoracic air leak Mediastinal hemorrhage Esophageal and airways injury Chest wall injury Infection Pneumonia Neonatal pneumonia Bacterial pneumonia Viral pneumonia Opportunistic infection Empyema & pleural disease Foreign body aspiration Neonatal respiratory distress Respiratory distress syndrome Meconium aspiration syndrome Transient tachypnea of the newborn Congenital heart disease Congestive heart failure and pulmonary edema

Abdomen Trauma Solid viscus injury Hollow viscus injury Peritoneal fluid, hemoperitoneum & active hemorrhage Hypoperfusion complex Non-traumatic hemorrhage Adrenal hemorrhage Infection/Inflammation Appendicitis Pancreatitis Cholecystitis Cholangitis Pyelonephritis Bowel obstruction Midgut malrotation Bowel atresias Intestinal intussusception Hirschprungs disease Meconium ileus, meconium plug syndrome & meconium peritonitis GI bleeding Immunocomprimised disorders Neutropenic typhlitis Pseudomembranous colitis Obstructive uropathy Urolithiasis Pelvis Trauma Bladder and urethral injury Infection/Inflammatory PID Ovarian cystic disease & torsion Scrotum Trauma Infection/Inflammatory Neonatal testicular torsion Testicular torsion in older children Epididymitis/Orchitis Musculoskeletal Trauma Battered child Growth plate injury Toddlers fracture Nursemaids elbow Elbow injury & normal developmental variants Biomechanical features of growing long bones Infection Osteomyelitis Septic arthritis Pyomyositis Miscellaneous Child with limp Pediatric sedation & monitoring in the emergency setting

Suggested Readings:

Swischuk LE, Imaging of the Newborn, Infant & Youn Child. Williams & Wilkins, 1997.

Kirks D. Practical Pediatric Imaging: Diagnostic Radiology of Infants & Children, Little Brown & Company, 1995.

Siegel MJ, Sivit CJ. Radiologic Clinics of North America: Imaging of the Acute Pediatric Abdomen, W.B. Saunders, July 1997.

Stringer DA, Babyn PS. Pediatric gastrointestinal imaging and intervention. B.C. Decker Inc, 2000.

Harris JH, Harris WH, (eds). The Radiology of Emergency Medicine. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, 2000.

Harris JH, Mirvis SE. The Radiology of Acute Cervical Spine Trauma. Williams
and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, Third Edition, 1995.

McCort JJ, Trauma Radiology. Churchill Livingstone, New York, NY.1990.

Mirvis SE, Young JWR. Imaging in Trauma and Acute Care. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, MD, 1992.

Novelline RA. Advances in Emergency Radiology, Volumes I and II, Radiological Clinics of North America. WB Saunders, Philadelphia, PA, 1999.

Stern EJ. Trauma Radiology Companion. Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, PA 1997.

Eustace SJ. Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Orthopedic Trauma. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Philadelphia, PA, 1999.