ReviewIntensive care medicine2019
Thoracic ultrasonography: a narrative review.
Review in Intensive care medicine, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 137 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Point-of-care Lung Ultrasound (POCUS)-Integrated Observation Study of Admitted Patients With COVID-19
Diagnosing Obstructive Lung Disease With Point of Care Ultrasound- A Cross-sectional, Diagnostic Accuracy Test
Who cites it
137 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 268 citations in OpenAlex.
- Live teleultrasound for evaluation of the chest: a systematic review.European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society · 2025Pooled it
- Association of Lung Ultrasound Score with Mortality and Severity of COVID-19: A Meta-Analysis and Trial Sequential Analysis.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2021Pooled it
- Pooled it
- Ultrasonographic characterization of malignant pleural effusion in a murine experimental model.BMC cancer · 2026Article
- Exploratory Assessment of Pulsed-Wave Doppler Representations of Lung Sounds Using Deep Learning: An In-Vitro Phantom Study.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Explainable transfer learning ensemble AI model for lung ultrasound pneumothorax detection with expert benchmark.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2026Article
- Electronic Stethoscope Auscultation and Echocardiography in ARDS: Correlation and Prognostic Value for Mortality and ICU Length of Stay: A Prospective Observational Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Observational
- Effect of lateral positioning on ventilation in patients with blunt thoracic injury during pressure support ventilation: the VICTORY study.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2026Article
- Lung ultrasound B-line quantification in CTD-ILD: a cross-sectional single-center observational study.Scientific reports · 2026Observational
- The effect of ultrasound-guided lung recruitment maneuvers on postoperative atelectasis: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Review
- Pulmonary Fat Embolism After Fat Grafting.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Advances in bedside imaging: lung ultrasound.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2025Review
- Correlation between positive fluid balances with venous excess ultrasound scores and lung ultrasound in critically ill children with fluid overload.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- UTILITY OF CHEST ULTRASONOGRAPHY IN QUANTIFYING CLOT AND PLEURAL EFFUSION VOLUME IN PRECLINICAL MODELS OF PLEURAL DISEASE.Biomedical sciences instrumentation · 2025Article
- Clinical cases of contagious caprine pleuropneumonia in sheep: Retrospective clinical, sonographic, and pathological investigations.Open veterinary journal · 2025Article
- Regional barriers in POCUS training.Critical care (London, England) · 2025Article
- Intraoperative Lung Ultrasound in the Detection of Pulmonary Nodules: A Valuable Tool in Thoracic Surgery.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Lung Ultrasound in Mechanical Ventilation: A Purposive Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Lung Ultrasound in Critical Care: A Narrative Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Clinical and ultrasound characteristics in patients with sars-cov-2 pneumonia, associated with hospitalization prognosis. e-covid project.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2024Article
77 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Authors and funding
9 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This narrative review focuses on thoracic ultrasonography (lung and pleural) with the aim of outlining its utility for the critical care clinician. The article summarizes the applications of thoracic ultrasonography for the evaluation and management of pneumothorax, pleural effusion, acute dyspnea, pulmonary edema, pulmonary embolism, pneumonia, interstitial processes, and the patient on mechanical ventilatory support. Mastery of lung and pleural ultrasonography allows the intensivist to rapidly diagnose and guide the management of a wide variety of disease processes that are common features of critical illness. Its ease of use, rapidity, repeatability, and reliability make thoracic ultrasonography the "go to" modality for imaging the lung and pleura in an efficient, cost effective, and safe manner, such that it can largely replace chest imaging in critical care practice. It is best used in conjunction with other components of critical care ultrasonography to yield a comprehensive evaluation of the critically ill patient at point of care.
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