Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19 pandemic: Why? How? And When?
| Autor: | Andriy Vysotskyi, Khrystyna O Pronyuk |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
Mechanical ventilation
medicine.medical_specialty ARDS Lung Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Respiratory distress business.industry medicine.medical_treatment 030208 emergency & critical care medicine General Medicine medicine.disease 03 medical and health sciences Pneumonia 0302 clinical medicine medicine.anatomical_structure 030228 respiratory system Intensive care Pandemic medicine Intensive care medicine business |
| Zdroj: | Likarska sprava. :3-12 |
| ISSN: | 2706-8803 1019-5297 |
| Popis: | During COVID-19 pandemic Lung ultrasound has rapidly become a tool for diagnosis and monitoring of lung involvement and it’s severity. Accurate evaluation of lung pathologic entities at the bedside, especially in critically ill patients, and those on mechanical ventilation, remains problematic. CT should not be frequently repeated and is not available everywhere, especially for critically ill patients. Limitations of bedside chest X-ray have been well described and lead to poor-quality X-ray films with low sensitivity.The lung ultrasound has been shown to be a useful tool in intensive care patients with adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and can be used forassessing severity of lung involvement in COVID-19. In this paper the accuracy of bedside LUS, chest X-ray and computer tomography are compared based on clinical cases, typical for COVID-19 lung ultrasound appearance is evaluated. There have been shown that lung ultrasound can predict the deterioration of the patient's conditionand can be used for risk stratification and clinical decision making, reducethe use of both chest x‐rays and computer tomography, what is very important especially in limited resources settings. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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