Point-of-care lung ultrasound – also known as lung POCUS – is a safer, more reliable alternative to X-ray in diagnosing pneumonia that provides information quickly. Yet it’s not widely ...

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 ...

Endobronchial Ultrasound is used to diagnose and treat certain diseases of the airways, such as lung cancer. It can also be used to diagnose and treat other conditions, such as pneumonia, ...

Lung Ultrasound Performed by Primary Care Physicians for Clinically Suspected Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Multicenter Prospective Study. Antonio Calvo-Cebrián, MD, et al ...

Calvo-Cebrián, A., et al. (2022) Lung Ultrasound Performed by Primary Care Physicians for Clinically Suspected Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Multicenter Prospective Study. The Annals of Family ...

A breakthrough new AI model is able to detect the presence of different lung diseases from ultrasound videos, with 96.57% accuracy, and it is even able to distinguish whether the abnormalities are ...

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.