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ArticleMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2025

Standard to Handheld: A New Wave in Thoracic Ultrasound and Patient Care-A Direct Comparison of Portable Handheld Against Standard in Thoracic Ultrasound.

Dzufar Halim, Alan Kelly, James Hayes, Kathleen Bennett, Argyrios Tzouvelekis, Dimitrios Ampazis, Fotios Sampsonas

Abstract readComparative Study
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Article in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
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  3. Advances in bedside imaging: lung ultrasound.Intensive care medicine experimental · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Dzufar HalimRespiratory Department, Cavan General Hospital, H12 A5D7 Cavan, Ireland.
Alan KellyRespiratory Department, Cavan General Hospital, H12 A5D7 Cavan, Ireland.
James HayesRespiratory Department, Cavan General Hospital, H12 A5D7 Cavan, Ireland.
Kathleen BennettData Science Centre, School of Population Health, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) Dublin, D02 YN77 Dublin, Ireland.ORCID 0000-0002-2861-7665
Argyrios TzouvelekisRespiratory Department, Patras University Hospital, 26504 Patras, Greece.
Dimitrios AmpazisRespiratory Department, Cavan General Hospital, H12 A5D7 Cavan, Ireland.
Fotios SampsonasRespiratory Department, Patras University Hospital, 26504 Patras, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-7796-2959

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

Indexed as

Patient CarePoint-of-Care SystemsAdultAgedFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedSurveys and QuestionnairesUltrasonographyinterstitial profilelung ultrasoundpatient carepleural effusionportable handheld ultrasound device

Identifiers

PMID40005430
PMCPMC11857366

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