Reliability and clinical correlations of semi-quantitative lung ultrasound on BLUE points in COVID-19 mechanically ventilated patients: The 'BLUE-LUSS'-A feasibility clinical study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Bedside lung ultrasound has gained a key role in each segment of the treatment chain during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the diagnostic assessment of the critically ill patients in ICUs, it is highly important to maximize the amount and quality of gathered information while minimizing unnecessary interventions (e.g. moving/rotating the patient). Another major factor is to reduce the risk of infection and the workload of the staff.

Objectives

To serve these significant issues we constructed a feasibility study, in which we used a single-operator technique without moving the patient, only assessing the easily achievable lung regions at conventional BLUE points. We hypothesized that calculating this 'BLUE lung ultrasound score' (BLUE-LUSS) is a reasonable clinical

SUBMITTER: Orosz G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9565374 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature