Diagnostic accuracy of bedside ultrasonography in the ICU: Feasibility of detecting pulmonary effusion and lung contusion in patients on respiratory support after severe blunt thoracic trauma

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 776-784

  Rocco, M ^a,b   Carbone, I ^b   Morelli, A ^b   Bertoletti, L ^b   Rossi, S ^b   Vitale, M ^b   Montini, L ^c   Passariello, R ^b   Pietropaoli, P ^b  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute respiratory failure; Blunt thoracic trauma; Intensive care unit; Lung; Lung ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG PARENCHYMA; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PLEURA EFFUSION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; THORAX BLUNT TRAUMA; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY CT;

ADULT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CONTUSIONS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; MALE; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORACIC INJURIES; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 45149101656     PISSN: 00015172     EISSN: 13996576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-6576.2008.01647.x     Document Type: Article

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