Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose

Lung Ultra-Sound (LUS) can be very helpful at the diagnostic stage of COVID-19 pneumonia. We describe four clinical cases that summarize other helpful employment of LUS during the management of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with lung failure. LUS, together with clinical signs and arterial blood gases va...

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Autores principales: Magnani, Elena, Mattei, Luca, Paolucci, Elisa, Magalotti, Giovanni, Giacalone, Nicoletta, Praticò, Chiara, Praticò, Beniamino, Zani, Maria Cristina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101307
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author Magnani, Elena
Mattei, Luca
Paolucci, Elisa
Magalotti, Giovanni
Giacalone, Nicoletta
Praticò, Chiara
Praticò, Beniamino
Zani, Maria Cristina
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Mattei, Luca
Paolucci, Elisa
Magalotti, Giovanni
Giacalone, Nicoletta
Praticò, Chiara
Praticò, Beniamino
Zani, Maria Cristina
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description Lung Ultra-Sound (LUS) can be very helpful at the diagnostic stage of COVID-19 pneumonia. We describe four clinical cases that summarize other helpful employment of LUS during the management of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with lung failure. LUS, together with clinical signs and arterial blood gases values, assists in guiding prompt clinical management of potential worsening of conditions. The monitoring of size and signs of aeration of consolidations is an important adjuvant in evaluating clinical evolution. The monitoring of LUS patterns can guide the management of non-invasive ventilation as well as the timing of CPAP weaning.
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spelling pubmed-76918242020-11-27 Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose Magnani, Elena Mattei, Luca Paolucci, Elisa Magalotti, Giovanni Giacalone, Nicoletta Praticò, Chiara Praticò, Beniamino Zani, Maria Cristina Respir Med Case Rep Case Report Lung Ultra-Sound (LUS) can be very helpful at the diagnostic stage of COVID-19 pneumonia. We describe four clinical cases that summarize other helpful employment of LUS during the management of severe COVID-19 pneumonia with lung failure. LUS, together with clinical signs and arterial blood gases values, assists in guiding prompt clinical management of potential worsening of conditions. The monitoring of size and signs of aeration of consolidations is an important adjuvant in evaluating clinical evolution. The monitoring of LUS patterns can guide the management of non-invasive ventilation as well as the timing of CPAP weaning. Elsevier 2020-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7691824/ /pubmed/33262928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101307 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Magnani, Elena
Mattei, Luca
Paolucci, Elisa
Magalotti, Giovanni
Giacalone, Nicoletta
Praticò, Chiara
Praticò, Beniamino
Zani, Maria Cristina
Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose
title Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose
title_full Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose
title_fullStr Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose
title_full_unstemmed Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose
title_short Lung Ultrasound in Severe COVID-19 Pneumonia in the Sub-Intensive Care Unit: Beyond the Diagnostic Purpose
title_sort lung ultrasound in severe covid-19 pneumonia in the sub-intensive care unit: beyond the diagnostic purpose
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7691824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101307
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