Ultrasonography: An Unchartered Modality in the Current Pandemic - A Study among Patients Admitted in the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The objectives were to perform an analysis of lung ultrasonography (LUS) findings in severely ill patients with novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) and to compare the accuracy with high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) of the thorax.

Methods

Sixty-two intensive care unit (ICU) patients with COVID-19 were evaluated during their hospital stay. LUS was performed with convex and linear transducers using a designated ultrasonography machine placed in the COVID-19 ICU. The thorax was scanned in 12 areas. Initial LUS was performed on admission and follow-up LUS was done in 7 (mean) days. At the time of the initial LUS, HRCT was performed in 28/62 patients and a chest radiography in 19/62 patients.

Results

On admission, LUS detected pleural line thickeni

SUBMITTER: Sethi HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8081098 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan-Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature