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Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on
COVID-19 can cause damage to the lung, which can result in progressive respiratory failure and potential death. Chest radiography and CT are the imaging tools used to diagnose and monitor patients with COVID-19. Lung ultrasound (LUS) during COVID-19 is being used in some areas to aid decision-making...
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The British Institute of Radiology.
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33353379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200755 |
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author | Wolstenhulme, Stephen McLaughlan, James Ross |
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description | COVID-19 can cause damage to the lung, which can result in progressive respiratory failure and potential death. Chest radiography and CT are the imaging tools used to diagnose and monitor patients with COVID-19. Lung ultrasound (LUS) during COVID-19 is being used in some areas to aid decision-making and improve patient care. However, its increased use could help improve existing practice for patients with suspected COVID-19, or other lung disease. A limitation of LUS is that it requires practitioners with sufficient competence to ensure timely, safe, and diagnostic clinical/imaging assessments. This commentary discusses the role and governance of LUS during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, and how increased education and training in this discipline can be undertaken given the restrictions in imaging highly infectious patients. The use of simulation, although numerical methods or dedicated scan trainers, and machine learning algorithms could further improve the accuracy of LUS, whilst helping to reduce its learning curve for greater uptake in clinical practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-80112432021-10-18 Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on Wolstenhulme, Stephen McLaughlan, James Ross Br J Radiol Commentary COVID-19 can cause damage to the lung, which can result in progressive respiratory failure and potential death. Chest radiography and CT are the imaging tools used to diagnose and monitor patients with COVID-19. Lung ultrasound (LUS) during COVID-19 is being used in some areas to aid decision-making and improve patient care. However, its increased use could help improve existing practice for patients with suspected COVID-19, or other lung disease. A limitation of LUS is that it requires practitioners with sufficient competence to ensure timely, safe, and diagnostic clinical/imaging assessments. This commentary discusses the role and governance of LUS during and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, and how increased education and training in this discipline can be undertaken given the restrictions in imaging highly infectious patients. The use of simulation, although numerical methods or dedicated scan trainers, and machine learning algorithms could further improve the accuracy of LUS, whilst helping to reduce its learning curve for greater uptake in clinical practice. The British Institute of Radiology. 2021-03 2021-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8011243/ /pubmed/33353379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200755 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Wolstenhulme, Stephen McLaughlan, James Ross Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on |
title | Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on |
title_full | Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on |
title_fullStr | Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on |
title_full_unstemmed | Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on |
title_short | Lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on |
title_sort | lung ultrasound education: simulation and hands-on |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8011243/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33353379 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjr.20200755 |
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