Objectives

After participating in this educational activity, attendees should be able to:
1. Recognize the technical and logistic difficulties in diagnosing pneumonia in children in limited resource settings.
2. Recognize lung ultrasound as a non-radiating, noninvasive and accurate tool to diagnose pneumonia in children.
3. Assess the correlation between the world health organization clinical definition of severe and very severe pneumonia and imaging findings in CXR and lung ultrasound to diagnose pneumonia in limited resource settings.
4. Evaluate the correlation between CXR and ultrasound findings when attempting to diagnose pneumonia in children in limited resource settings.
5. Recognize the utility of artificial intelligence in the interpretation of ultrasound imaging findings when attempting to diagnose pneumonia in children in limited resource settings.

Faculty

Ingrid Camelo, MD, MPH
Pediatric Infectious Disease Specialist
UMMS - Baystate

Faculty Disclosure

The design and content of Baystate Continuing Interprofessional Education ( CE ) activities support quality improvement in healthcare and provide fair and balanced views of therapeutic options.  Faculty or planner conflicts of interest are resolved before the educational activity.

None of the members of the faculty and planning committee for this educational event have commercial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling or distributing health care goods and services consumed by or used on patients.