There is. Point-of-care lung ultrasound – also known as lung POCUS – is a safer, more reliable alternative that provides information quickly, yet it’s not widely considered the standard of care.

Lung POCUS has become an essential tool in hospital medicine, offering rapid bedside assessment of respiratorypathologies, ...

Drs Todd A. Florin and Russ Horowitz discuss point-of-care lung ultrasound in the diagnosis of pediatric pneumonia and methods for involving patients and parents in the diagnostic process.

All total, the research team noted a 38.8 percent reduction in chest X-rays in the investigational arm compared to no reduction in the control arm, with no missed pneumonia cases and no increase ...

Lung ultrasound (LUS) is as effective as chest radiography (CXR) in diagnosing childhood community-acquired pneumonia, according to systematic review and meta-analysis findings published in ...

An Italian doctor at the front lines of the COVID-19 epidemic, desperate for a better way to triage patients in danger of respiratory failure, is trying lung ultrasounds.

Young children are increasingly being infected with bacteria that can lead to the illness known as walking pneumonia. A hallmark symptom is a cough that starts out dry, but eventually produces ...

Veteran actor Saira Banu battled pneumonia some time back and is currently on the road to recovery. According to news reports, the 80-year-old was admitted to the hospital due to severe infection ...