Quantitative lung ultrasound: technical aspects and clinical applications

S Mongodi, D De Luca, A Colombo, A Stella… - …, 2021 - ingentaconnect.com
Lung ultrasound is increasingly used in emergency departments, medical wards, and critical
care units—adult, pediatric, and neonatal. In vitro and in vivo studies show that the number …

Why, when, and how to use lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic: enthusiasm and caution

L Gargani, H Soliman-Aboumarie… - European Heart …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the major current global
health issues, due to its high rate of infection and increasing mortality. SARS-CoV-2 is a …

What's new in lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic

G Volpicelli, A Lamorte, T Villén - Intensive care medicine, 2020 - Springer
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic is undermining the ability of many advanced healthcare
systems worldwide to provide quality care [1, 2]. COVID-19 is the disease caused by …

Lung, heart, vascular, and diaphragm ultrasound examination of COVID-19 patients: a comprehensive approach

F Guarracino, L Vetrugno, F Forfori, F Corradi… - Journal of cardiothoracic …, 2021 - Elsevier
Lung ultrasound (LU) has a multitude of features and capacities that make it a useful
medical tool to assist physicians contending with the pandemic spread of novel coronavirus …

A randomized controlled trial of lung ultrasound-guided therapy in heart failure (CLUSTER-HF study)

D Araiza-Garaygordobil, R Gopar-Nieto… - American heart …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Lung ultrasound (LUS) has emerged as a new tool for the evaluation of
congestion in heart failure (HF); incorporation of LUS during follow-up may detect …

Development of a convolutional neural network to differentiate among the etiology of similar appearing pathological B lines on lung ultrasound: a deep learning study

R Arntfield, B VanBerlo, T Alaifan, N Phelps, M White… - BMJ open, 2021 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a portable, low-cost respiratory imaging tool but is
challenged by user dependence and lack of diagnostic specificity. It is unknown whether the …

Lung ultrasound in patients with acute respiratory failure reduces conventional imaging and health care provider exposure to COVID-19

S Mongodi, A Orlando, E Arisi, G Tavazzi… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2020 - Elsevier
Lung ultrasound gained a leading position in the last year as an imaging technique for the
assessment and management of patients with acute respiratory failure. In coronavirus …

The lung ultrasound: facts or artifacts? In the era of COVID-19 outbreak

M Di Serafino, M Notaro, G Rea, F Iacobellis… - La radiologia …, 2020 - Springer
Ultrasound is the most disruptive innovation in intensive care life, above all in this time, with
a high diagnostic value when applied appropriately. In recent years, point-of-care lung …

Sonographic diagnosis of COVID-19: A review of image processing for lung ultrasound

C McDermott, M Łącki, B Sainsbury, J Henry… - Frontiers in big …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The sustained increase in new cases of COVID-19 across the world and potential for
subsequent outbreaks call for new tools to assist health professionals with early diagnosis …

Lung ultrasound assessment of focal and non-focal lung morphology in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome

C Pierrakos, MR Smit, L Pisani, F Paulus… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: The identification of phenotypes based on lung morphology can be helpful to
better target mechanical ventilation of individual patients with acute respiratory distress …