Open AccessThe Diagnostic Accuracy and Prognostic Value of Lung ultrasound in Suspected COVID-19 a retrospective service evaluation
Author(s) -
F D Lesser,
Martin Dachsel,
Nicholas Smallwood
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
acute medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1747-4892
pISSN - 1747-4884
DOI - 10.52964/amja.0895
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , lung ultrasound , retrospective cohort study , value (mathematics) , diagnostic accuracy , service (business) , predictive value , radiology , medical physics , ultrasound , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , pathology , machine learning , computer science , disease , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , economy , economics
We read with interest the paper from Knight et al in Acute Medicine in particular the use of a lung ultrasound (LUS) score to predict outcome in patients with suspected COVID-19. LUS has been shown to be useful in the diagnosis and prognosis for COVID-19 by other authors. We have carried out a service evaluation project on our data from East Surrey Hospital looking into prognostic and diagnostic performance of LUS in suspected COVID-19. In contrast to the data used by Knight et al we had discharge diagnosis data available which allowed us to split the cohort into patients with COVID-19 and patients with other diagnoses and compare the LUS score between the two groups.