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However, incorrect positioning may induce serious complications, including pleural and pericardial effusion, arrhythmias, valvular damage, or incorrect drug release, and point of care diagnostic may prevent these serious consequences. Furthermore, pediatric patients with congenital heart disease receive various radiological procedures. Although relatively low, radiation exposure accumulates over the lifetime, potentially reaching high carcinogenic values in pediatric patients with chronic disease, and therefore needs to be limited. We hypothesized that correct CVC positioning in pediatric patients can be performed quickly and safely by point-of-care ultrasound diagnostic. Methods: We evaluated a point-of-care ultrasound protocol, consistent with the combination of parasternal craniocaudal, parasternal transversal, suprasternal notch, and subcostal probe positions, to verify tip positioning in any of the evaluated views at initial CVC placement in pediatric patients undergoing cardiothoracic surgery for congenital heart disease. Results: Using the combination of the four views, the CVC tip could be identified and positioned in 25 of 27 examinations (92.6%). Correct positioning was confirmed via chest X-ray after the surgery in all cases. Conclusions: In pediatric cardiac patients, point-of-care ultrasound diagnostic may be effective to confirm CVC positioning following initial placement and to reduce radiation exposure.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm10245971","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,20]],"date-time":"2021-12-20T08:43:32Z","timestamp":1639989812000},"page":"5971","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["Point-of-Care Ultrasound-Guided Protocol to Confirm Central Venous Catheter Placement in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cardiothoracic Surgery: A Prospective Feasibility Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"10","author":[{"given":"Torsten","family":"Baehner","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"St. Nikolaus-Stiftshospital Andernach, Ernestus-Platz 1, 56626 Andernach, Germany"},{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Marc","family":"Rohner","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ingo","family":"Heinze","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2377-3327","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ehrenfried","family":"Schindler","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4786-7712","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Maria","family":"Wittmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nadine","family":"Strassberger-Nerschbach","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Se-Chan","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5439-4648","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Markus","family":"Velten","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University, University Hospital Bonn, Venusberg-Campus 1, 53127 Bonn, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,12,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"257","DOI":"10.1177\/2150135120902122","article-title":"A National Survey: Current Clinical Practice in Pediatric Anesthesia for Congenital Heart Surgery","volume":"11","author":"Baehner","year":"2020","journal-title":"World J. 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