Lung Ultrasound in the Emergency Department for Early Identification of COVID-19 Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic overwhelming the health care systems worldwide. Lung ultrasound (LUS) use has been proposed to identify suspected COVID-19 patients and direct them to the isolation area in the emergency department (ED) or to discharge them for outpatient treatment.

Objective

Our aim was to retrospectively investigate the use of LUS in the ED to identify COVID-19 pneumonia (CP).

Methods

We performed a retrospective single-center study including all patients accessing the ED who underwent LUS examination for suspicion of COVID-19 during the initial outbreak. Demographics, clinical parameters, laboratory values, imaging features, and outcome variables were collected. The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used t

SUBMITTER: Zanforlin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7801958 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature