Point of care and intensive care lung ultrasound: a reference guide for practitioners during COVID-19

S Moore, E Gardiner - Radiography, 2020 - Elsevier
Objectives Current events with the recent COVID-19 outbreak are necessitating steep
learning curves for the NHS workforce. Ultrasound, although not used in the diagnosis of …

Lung ultrasound score predicts outcomes in COVID-19 patients admitted to the emergency department

JCG de Alencar, JFM Marchini, LO Marino… - Annals of intensive …, 2021 - Springer
Background During the COVID-19 pandemic, creating tools to assess disease severity is
one of the most important aspects of reducing the burden on emergency departments. Lung …

[HTML][HTML] Lung ultrasound: a diagnostic leading tool for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a narrative review

L Maggi, AM Biava, S Fiorelli, F Coluzzi, A Ricci… - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has spread worldwide
causing a global pandemic. In this context, lung ultrasound (LUS) has played an important …

Using lung ultrasound to quantitatively evaluate pulmonary water content

HF Zong, G Guo, J Liu, LL Bao… - Pediatric …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Background Increases in extravascular lung water (EVLW) can lead to respiratory failure.
This study aimed to investigate whether the B‐line score (BLS) was correlated with the …

Lung ultrasound score in establishing the timing of intubation in COVID-19 interstitial pneumonia: A preliminary retrospective observational study

X Lu, M Zhang, A Qian, L Tang, S Xu - Plos one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Purpose To investigate the role of lung ultrasound score (LUS) in assessing intubation
timing for patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) …

Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound for SARS-CoV-2: a retrospective cohort study

DS Brenner, GY Liu, R Omron, O Tang… - The ultrasound …, 2021 - Springer
Background As medical infrastructures are strained by SARS-CoV-2, rapid and accurate
screening tools are essential. In portions of the world, reverse transcription polymerase …

Can non-physician advanced retrieval practitioners (ARP) acquire and interpret diagnostic views of the lungs with sufficient quality to aid in the diagnosis of …

J Ronaldson, CEJ Moultrie, AR Corfield… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Background As an adjunct to physical examination, ultrasound is a potentially attractive
option for diagnosing pneumothoraces in the pre-hospital and retrieval environment–and …

Changes in lung ultrasound of symptomatic healthcare professionals with COVID‐19 pneumonia and their association with clinical findings

TT Mafort, AJ Lopes, CH da Costa… - Journal of Clinical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose To evaluate ultrasound signs of coronavirus disease‐19 (COVID‐19) pneumonia in
symptomatic healthcare professionals and to correlate those changes with clinical findings …

Is bigger really better? Comparison of ultraportable handheld ultrasound with standard point-of-care ultrasound for evaluating safe site identification and image quality …

SM Newhouse, TW Effing, BD Dougherty, JA D'costa… - Respiration, 2020 - karger.com
Background: Pleural effusions remain a common medical problem which often requires
diagnostic pleurocentesis to determine the underlying cause. Pleurocentesis is a frequently …

Prospective, multicentre observational study of point‐of‐care ultrasound practice in emergency departments across Australia and New Zealand: The POCUS‐ED …

C Partyka, S Flannagan, G Carbonatto… - Emergency Medicine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives The present study aimed to describe the characteristics, performance, accuracy
and significance of point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) use in the ED, by utilising an …