ReviewJournal of medical ultrasonics (2001)2021
Point-of-care lung ultrasound for the assessment of pneumonia: a narrative review in the COVID-19 era.
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EXPLORING the CORRELATION of the LUNG ULTRASOUND with DELIRIUM and OUTCOMES in ACUTE GERIATRICS WORLD (ECO-AGE): a MULTICENTER, PROSPECTIVE, OBSERVATIONAL STUDY from the GRETA GROUP (GRUPPO DI RICERCA in ECOGRAFIA TORACICA NELL' ANZIANO) of the ITALIAN SOCIETY of GERONTOLOGY and GERIATRICS (SIGG)
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 46 citations in OpenAlex.
- The diagnostic performance of lung ultrasound for detecting COVID-19 in emergency departments: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of clinical ultrasound : JCU · 2022Pooled 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
- Lung ultrasound performed by primary care physicians as a predictive and diagnostic tool in COVID-19 patients.NPJ primary care respiratory medicine · 2026Observational
- My approach to respiratory sepsis: pulmonary.Breathe (Sheffield, England) · 2026Review
- Observational
- Nuts and bolts of lung ultrasound: utility, scanning techniques, protocols, and findings in common pathologies.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Review
- Impact of Lung Ultrasound along with C-Reactive Protein Point-of-Care Testing on Clinical Decision-Making and Perceived Usefulness in Routine Healthcare for Patients with Lower Respiratory Tract Infections: Protocol for Analytical Observational Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- COVID-Net L2C-ULTRA: An Explainable Linear-Convex Ultrasound Augmentation Learning Framework to Improve COVID-19 Assessment and Monitoring.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Perception, Challenges, and Barriers of Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound Among Respiratory Therapist in the United States.CHEST pulmonary · 2024Article
- Automated Lung Ultrasound Pulmonary Disease Quantification Using an Unsupervised Machine Learning Technique for COVID-19.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Development of prognostic models to estimate the probability of lung injury one year after COVID-19-related hospitalization-a prospective study.Journal of thoracic disease · 2023Article
- Ultrasound during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Global Approach.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Imaging in patients with acute dyspnea when cardiac or pulmonary origin is suspected.BJR open · 2023Review
- Lung Ultrasound in Coronary Care Unit, an Important Diagnostic Tool for Concomitant Pneumonia.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Gastrointestinal microbiota: A predictor of COVID-19 severity?World journal of gastroenterology · 2022Review
- Early Lung Ultrasound Findings in Patients With COVID-19 Pneumonia: A Retrospective Multicenter Study of 479 Patients.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2022Article
- Usefulness of thoracic ultrasound for diagnosis and follow-up of pneumonia.Revista espanola de quimioterapia : publicacion oficial de la Sociedad Espanola de Quimioterapia · 2022Review
- Prevention and treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia in COVID-19.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2022Review
- Reshaping of Italian Echocardiographic Laboratories Activities during the Second Wave of COVID-19 Pandemic and Expectations for the Post-Pandemic Era.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
In the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) era, point-of-care lung ultrasound (LUS) has attracted increased attention. Prospective studies on LUS for the assessment of pneumonia in adult patients were extensively carried out for more than 10 years before this era. None of these prospective studies attempted to differentiate bacterial and viral pneumonia in adult patients using LUS. The majority of studies considered the LUS examination to be positive if sonographic consolidations or multiple B-lines were observed. Significant differences existed in the accuracy of these studies. Some studies revealed that LUS showed superior sensitivity to chest X-ray. These results indicate that point-of-care LUS has the potential to be an initial imaging modality for the diagnosis of pneumonia. The LUS diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units is more challenging in comparison with the diagnosis of community-acquired pneumonia in emergency departments due to the limited access to the mechanically ventilated patients and the high prevalence of atelectasis. However, several studies have demonstrated that the combination of LUS findings with other clinical markers improved the diagnostic accuracy. In the COVID-19 era, many case reports and small observational studies on COVID-19 pneumonia have been published in a short period. Multiple B-lines were the most common and consistent finding in COVID-19 pneumonia. Serial LUS showed the deterioration of the disease. The knowledge and ideas on the application of LUS in the management of pneumonia that are expected to accumulate in the COVID-19 era may provide us with clues regarding more appropriate management.
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