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ReviewCritical care (London, England)2024

Nuts and bolts of lung ultrasound: utility, scanning techniques, protocols, and findings in common pathologies.

Michael Beshara, Edward A Bittner, Alberto Goffi, Lorenzo Berra, Marvin G Chang

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Review in Critical care (London, England), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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24 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Michael BesharaDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, White 437, Boston, MA, USA.
Edward A BittnerDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, White 437, Boston, MA, USA.
Alberto GoffiInterdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
Lorenzo BerraDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, White 437, Boston, MA, USA.
Marvin G ChangDepartment of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, White 437, Boston, MA, USA. mgchang@partners.org.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Point of Care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs, also known as lung ultrasound (LUS), has emerged as a technique that allows for the diagnosis of many respiratory pathologies with greater accuracy and speed compared to conventional techniques such as chest x-ray and auscultation. The goal of this narrative review is to provide a simple and practical approach to LUS for critical care, pulmonary, and anesthesia providers, as well as respiratory therapists and other health care providers to be able to implement this technique into their clinical practice. In this review, we will discuss the basic physics of LUS, provide a hands-on scanning technique, describe LUS findings seen in normal and pathological conditions (such as mainstem intubation, pneumothorax, atelectasis, pneumonia, aspiration, COPD exacerbation, cardiogenic pulmonary edema, ARDS, and pleural effusion) and also review the training necessary to achieve competence in LUS.

Indexed as

LungPoint-of-Care SystemsUltrasonographyHumansLung DiseasesAnesthesiaARDSAspirationAtelectasisCardiogenic pulmonary edemaCOPD exacerbationCritical careCritical care ultrasoundLung ultrasoundLung ultrasound trainingLUSMainstem intubationPleural effusionPneumoniaPneumothoraxPOCUSPOCUS competencyPOCUS trainingPoint of care ultrasoundPulmonaryUltrasoundUltrasound competencyUltrasound training

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PMID39375782
PMCPMC11460009

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