Integrated lung ultrasound score for early clinical decision-making in patients with COVID-19: results and implications.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Lung Ultrasound Score (LUS) identifies and monitors pneumonia by assigning increasing scores. However, it does not include parameters, such as inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter and index of collapse, diaphragmatic excursions and search for pleural and pericardial effusions. Therefore, we propose a new improved scoring system, termed "integrated" lung ultrasound score (i-LUS) which incorporates previously mentioned parameters that can help in prediction of disease severity and survival, choice of oxygenation mode/ventilation and assignment to subsequent areas of care in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia.

Methods

Upon admission at the sub-intensive section of the emergency medical department (SEMD), 143 consecutively examined COVID-19 patients underwen

SUBMITTER: Dell'Aquila P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9156837 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature