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Lung Ultrasound Findings in Patients Hospitalized With COVID‐19 by Andre Kumar; Yingjie Weng; Youyou Duanmu; Sally Graglia; Farhan Lalani; Kavita Gandhi; Viveta Lobo; Trevor Jensen; Sukyung Chung; Jeffrey Nahn; John Kugler is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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## Objectives Lung ultrasound (LUS) can accurately diagnose several pulmonary diseases, including pneumothorax, effusion, and pneumonia. LUS may be useful in the diagnosis and management of COVID‐19. ## Methods This study was conducted at two United States hospitals from 3/21/2020 to 6/01/2020. Our inclusion criteria included hospitalized adults with COVID‐19 (based on symptomatology and a confirmatory RT‐PCR for SARS‐CoV‐2) who received a LUS. Providers used a 12‐zone LUS scanning protocol. The images were interpreted by the researchers based on a pre‐developed consensus document. Patients were stratified by clinical deterioration (defined as either ICU admission, invasive mechanical ventilation, or death within 28 days from the initial symptom onset) and time from symptom onset to their scan. ## Results N = 22 patients (N = 36 scans) were included. Eleven (50%) patients experienced clinical deterioration. Among N = 36 scans, only 3 (8%) were classified as normal. The remaining scans demonstrated B‐lines (89%), consolidations (56%), pleural thickening (47%), and pleural effusion (11%). Scans from patients with clinical deterioration demonstrated higher percentages of bilateral con

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Author

Andre Kumar; Yingjie Weng; Youyou Duanmu; Sally Graglia; Farhan Lalani; Kavita Gandhi; Viveta Lobo; Trevor Jensen; Sukyung Chung; Jeffrey Nahn; John Kugler

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)