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01-08-2020 | Lung Ultrasound | CHEST RADIOLOGY

The lung ultrasound: facts or artifacts? In the era of COVID-19 outbreak

Authors: Marco Di Serafino, Maria Notaro, Gaetano Rea, Francesca Iacobellis, Venere Delli Paoli, Ciro Acampora, Stefania Ianniello, Luca Brunese, Luigia Romano, Gianfranco Vallone

Published in: La radiologia medica | Issue 8/2020

Abstract

Ultrasound is the most disruptive innovation in intensive care life, above all in this time, with a high diagnostic value when applied appropriately. In recent years, point-of-care lung ultrasound has gained significant popularity as a diagnostic tool in the acutely dyspnoeic patients. In the era of Sars-CoV-2 outbreak, lung ultrasound seems to be strongly adapting to the follow-up for lung involvement of patients with ascertaining infections, till to be used, in our opinion emblematically, as a screening test in suspected patients at the emergency triage or at home medical visit. In this brief review, we discuss the lung ultrasound dichotomy, certainties and uncertainties, describing its potential role in validated clinical contexts, as a clinical-dependent exam, its limits and pitfalls in a generic and off-label clinical context, as a virtual anatomical-dependent exam, and its effects on the clinical management of patients with COVID-19.

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Title: The lung ultrasound: facts or artifacts? In the era of COVID-19 outbreak
Authors: Marco Di Serafino
Maria Notaro
Gaetano Rea
Francesca Iacobellis
Venere Delli Paoli
Ciro Acampora
Stefania Ianniello
Luca Brunese
Luigia Romano
Gianfranco Vallone
Publication date: 01-08-2020
Publisher: Springer Milan
Keywords: Lung Ultrasound
COVID-19
Pneumothorax
Pneumothorax
Pneumothorax
SARS-CoV-2
Published in: La radiologia medica / Issue 8/2020
Print ISSN: 0033-8362
Electronic ISSN: 1826-6983
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11547-020-01236-5

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