Lung ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic

Lung ultrasound has been described for over a decade and international protocols exist for its application. It is a controversial area among pulmonologists and has had more uptake with emergency as well as intensive care physicians. We discuss the basics and evidence behind the use of lung ultrasoun...

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Autores principales: Jackson, Karl, Butler, Robert, Aujayeb, Avinash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10016966/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32895294
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138137
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description Lung ultrasound has been described for over a decade and international protocols exist for its application. It is a controversial area among pulmonologists and has had more uptake with emergency as well as intensive care physicians. We discuss the basics and evidence behind the use of lung ultrasound in respiratory failure, and what role we see it playing in the current 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-100169662023-05-23 Lung ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic Jackson, Karl Butler, Robert Aujayeb, Avinash Postgrad Med J Review Lung ultrasound has been described for over a decade and international protocols exist for its application. It is a controversial area among pulmonologists and has had more uptake with emergency as well as intensive care physicians. We discuss the basics and evidence behind the use of lung ultrasound in respiratory failure, and what role we see it playing in the current 2019 novel coronavirus pandemic. Oxford University Press 2020-09-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10016966/ /pubmed/32895294 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-138137 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2021. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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