Bedside lung ultrasound for postoperative lung conditions in cardiothoracic intensive care unit: Diagnostic value and comparison with bedside chest roentgenogram | Zendy

Subin Sukesan | Zendy; Kirubanand Senniappan | Zendy; Rupa Sreedhar | Zendy; MS Saravana Babu | Zendy; PrasantaKumar Dash | Zendy; ShrinivasV Gadhinglajkar | Zendy

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Bedside lung ultrasound for postoperative lung conditions in cardiothoracic intensive care unit: Diagnostic value and comparison with bedside chest roentgenogram

Author(s) -

Subin Sukesan,

Kirubanand Senniappan,

Rupa Sreedhar,

MS Saravana Babu,

PrasantaKumar Dash,

ShrinivasV Gadhinglajkar

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

anesthesia essays and researches

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 0259-1162

DOI - 10.4103/aer.aer_125_19

Subject(s) - medicine , pneumothorax , atelectasis , lung ultrasound , radiology , intensive care unit , pleural effusion , lung , pulmonology , prospective cohort study , ultrasound , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , surgery

The postoperative settings in cardiothoracic intensive care unit (ICU) patients pose a certain risk with pulmonary dysfunction causing morbidity and mortality. Lung ultrasound (LUS) has a potential to supplant or replace Chest X-rays (CXR) in these subset of patients, who will require bed side pulmonary pathology diagnosis and interventions.

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