Margaret Parker, MD, MCCM, speaks with David B. Kantor, MD, PhD, about the article, “Ultrasound Guidance and Other Determinants of Successful Peripheral Artery Catheterization in Critically Ill Children,” published in the December 2016 issue of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Kantor is an Assistant in Critical Care in the Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine in the Division of Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Department of Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. In this article, Dr. Kantor and coauthors studied the use of ultrasound guidance for peripheral arterial catheterization in critically ill children and if this procedure benefited certain subsets of patients.

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