Feasibility and Safety of Substituting Lung Ultrasound for Chest X-ray When Diagnosing Pneumonia in Children: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Chest, 2016; DOI: 10.1016/j.chest.2016.02.643 ...

Physicians interpreted 99 ultrasound scans and 73 x-rays as positive. The CT scans confirmed that 75% (95% CI 66.0-83.2) of these patients had atypical pneumonia.

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.

Lung ultrasound has been shown to be highly effective and safe for diagnosing pneumonia in children and a potential substitute for chest X-ray, according to a study conducted at the Icahn School ...

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

Point-of-care ultrasound was shown to be a useful tool for nonphysician clinicians in South Sudan to determine whether children had pneumonia, according to a study published in The American ...

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 ...

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.

Pneumonia in children can be diagnosed using lung ultrasound, a potential substitute for chest X-ray. Lung ultrasound has been shown to be highly effective and safe, according to a study conducted ...