ArticleUltrasound in medicine & biology2018
Postoperative chest ultrasound findings and effectiveness after thoracic surgery: A pilot study.
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- Can Chest Ultrasound Replace Chest X-ray in Thoracic Surgery?Tomography (Ann Arbor, Mich.) · 2022Pooled it
- Minimally Invasive Sampling of Mediastinal Lesions.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Thoracic Ultrasound as an Alternative to Chest X-ray in Thoracic Surgery Patients: A Single-Center Experience.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Ultrasound evaluation in the postoperative period for surgical treatment of thoracic infectious and inflammatory diseases.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2024Article
- Lung ultrasound for evaluating perioperative atelectasis and aeration in the post-anesthesia care unit.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2023Observational
- Lung Ultrasound Reduces Chest X-rays in Postoperative Care after Thoracic Surgery: Is There a Role for Artificial Intelligence?-Systematic Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Lung Ultrasound in Patients With Dyspnea From Infective Lung Disease.Frontiers in medicine · 2021Article
- Feasibility and efficacy of lung ultrasound to investigate pulmonary complications in patients who developed postoperative Hypoxaemia-a prospective study.BMC anesthesiology · 2020Article
- Recommendations from the Italian intersociety consensus on Perioperative Anesthesa Care in Thoracic surgery (PACTS) part 2: intraoperative and postoperative care.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2020Article
- Editorial of current practise in the use of chest ultrasound in thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Routine lung ultrasound to detect postoperative pulmonary complications following major abdominal surgery: a prospective observational feasibility study.The ultrasound journal · 2019Article
- Chest ultrasound in post-operative management: the needed to rethink our perspective?Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Chest ultrasound: enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) best friend in general thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Is chest ultrasonography an essential tool for the modern thoracic surgeon?Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Chest ultrasound versatility in routinary to complicated cases: our perspective.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Chest ultrasonography and X-ray may be perfectly integrated in patients management after thoracic surgery such as Shaq and Kobe.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Does daily chest ultrasound in the postoperative period contribute to an enhanced recovery after surgery pathway for patients undergoing general thoracic surgery?Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- The importance of asking the right questions: the role of chest ultrasound in thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Significance of chest ultrasound in the early postoperative period following thoracic surgery.Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
- Post-operative lung ultrasonography in daily routine thoracic surgery: can we trust its results?Journal of thoracic disease · 2019Article
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Abstract
The aim of this study was to analyze the information from post-operative chest ultrasound (CU) to evaluate the possibility to use this method instead of chest X-ray (CXR) after thoracic surgery. Patients who underwent thoracic surgery were evaluated with CU blinded to CXR after surgery, deciding if it was useful or CU was exhaustive. Twenty-four patients were enrolled prospectively. The CU allowed a further discrimination of the lung abnormalities, discriminating between atelectasis, infections or hematoma. CXR was required in only 5 cases due to the presence of massive subcutaneous emphysema or absence of lung point. In the remaining 19 cases, CU was considered exhaustive and effective. In particular, CU was considered exhaustive in 67% of cases after open surgery and in 85% of cases after video-assisted thoracic surgery. In conclusion, CU appears to be effective in post-operative management after thoracic surgery and it can increase the diagnostic accuracy reducing any unnecessary X-ray exposure.
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