Lung ultrasound: a new tool for the emergency physician
| Autor: | Massimo Fioretti, Alfredo Barillari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
| Předmět: |
Lung Diseases
medicine.medical_specialty Radiography Physical examination Internal Medicine medicine Humans Emergency physician Intensive care medicine Ultrasonography Lung medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Ultrasound Auscultation respiratory system medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Lung ultrasound medicine.anatomical_structure Dyspnea Pneumothorax Emergency Medicine Radiology business Emergency Service Hospital |
| Zdroj: | Internal and emergency medicine. 5(4) |
| ISSN: | 1970-9366 |
| Popis: | Patients with dyspnea are routinely assessed with physical examination, lung auscultation and chest X-rays. Auscultation and bedside radiography have a low accuracy in the critically ill. Chest X-ray images remain suboptimal in more than one-third of cases and are poorly correlated to lung CT images. Lung ultrasound is invaluable as a bedside diagnostic tool of the dyspneic patient since, in a few minutes, it may help distinguish the typical features of most common causes of dyspnea. The lung has been improperly considered to be poorly accessible using ultrasound, because air prevents the progression of the ultrasound beam with production of reverberation artifacts under the lung surface. This article reviews the scanning technique, and the normal and pathological findings of lung ultrasound, and underscores its utility in providing the emergency physician with a new, fast and reliable diagnostic tool. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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