ArticleInternal and emergency medicine2015
Lung ultrasound for diagnosis of pneumonia in emergency department.
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- Ultrasound on the Frontlines: Empowering Paramedics with Lung Ultrasound for Dyspnea Diagnosis in Adults-A Pilot Study.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Lung Ultrasound: A Complementary Imaging Tool for Chest X-Ray in the Evaluation of Dyspnea.The Indian journal of radiology & imaging · 2023Article
- Perceptive SARS-CoV-2 End-To-End Ultrasound Video Classification through X3D and Key-Frames Selection.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Lung Ultrasound in Coronary Care Unit, an Important Diagnostic Tool for Concomitant Pneumonia.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Molecular and Clinical Investigation of COVID-19: From Pathogenesis and Immune Responses to Novel Diagnosis and Treatment.Frontiers in molecular biosciences · 2022Review
- Diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of lung ultrasound in coronavirus disease (COVID-19).Polish journal of radiology · 2022Article
- Comparing lung ultrasound: extensive versus short in COVID-19 (CLUES): a multicentre, observational study at the emergency department.BMJ open · 2021Observational
- Deep learning and lung ultrasound for Covid-19 pneumonia detection and severity classification.Computers in biology and medicine · 2021Article
- Undifferentiated Dyspnea with Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Primary Emergency Physician Compared with a Dedicated Emergency Department Ultrasound Team.The Journal of emergency medicine · 2021Article
- COVID-19 and Non-COVID-19 Classification using Multi-layers Fusion From Lung Ultrasound Images.An international journal on information fusion · 2021Article
- Point-of-care lung ultrasound for the assessment of pneumonia: a narrative review in the COVID-19 era.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2021Review
- Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Lung Ultrasound B-Lines in Acute Heart Failure With Concomitant Pneumonia.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2021Article
- Role of Ultrasound-Guided Evaluation of Dyspnea in the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.Journal of cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia · 2020Review
- A Brief Review of Lung Ultrasonography in COVID-19: Is It Useful?Annals of emergency medicine · 2020Article
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Abstract
Lung ultrasound (LUS) in the emergency department (ED) has shown a significant role in the diagnostic workup of pulmonary edema, pneumothorax and pleural effusions. The aim of this study is to assess the reliability of LUS for the diagnosis of acute pneumonia compared to chest X-ray (CXR) study. The study was conducted from September 2013 to March 2015. 107 patients were admitted to the ED with a clinical appearance of pneumonia. All the patients underwent a CXR study, read by a radiologist, and an LUS, performed by a trained ED physician on duty. Among the 105 patients, 68 were given a final diagnosis of pneumonia. We found a sensitivity of 0.985 and a specificity of 0.649 for LUS, and a sensitivity of 0.735 and specificity of 0.595 for CXR. The positive predictive value for LUS was 0.838 against 0.7 for CXR. The negative predictive value of LUS was 0.960 versus 0.550 for CXR. This study has shown sensitivity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of LUS compared to the CXR study for the diagnosis of acute pneumonia. These results suggest the use of bedside thoracic US first-line diagnostic tool in patients with suspected pneumonia.
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