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Our Italian experience using lung ultrasound for identification, grading and serial follow‐up of severity of lung involvement for management of patients with COVID‐19
Author(s) -
Vetrugno Luigi,
Bove Tiziana,
Orso Daniele,
Barbariol Federico,
Bassi Flavio,
Boero Enrico,
Ferrari Giovanni,
Kong Robert
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
echocardiography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.404
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1540-8175
pISSN - 0742-2822
DOI - 10.1111/echo.14664
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , lung ultrasound , lung , radiology , ultrasound , grading (engineering) , computed tomography , coronavirus , pathology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering , civil engineering , outbreak
Lung ultrasound (LU) has rapidly become a tool for assessment of patients stricken by the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID‐19). Over the past two and a half months (January, February, and first half of March 2020) we have used this modality for identification of lung involvement along with pulmonary severity in patients with suspected or documented COVID‐19 infection. Use of LU has helped us in clinical decision making and reduced the use of both chest x‐rays and computed tomography (CT).