The use of point-of-care bedside lung ultrasound significantly reduces the number of radiographs and computed tomography scans in critically ill patients

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-692

  Peris, Adriano ^a   Tutino, Lorenzo ^a   Zagli, Giovanni ^a   Batacchi, Stefano ^a   Cianchi, Giovanni ^a   Spina, Rosario ^a   Bonizzoli, Manuela ^a   Migliaccio, Luisa ^a   Perretta, Lucia ^a   Bartolini, Marco ^a   Ban, Kevin ^b   Balik, Martin ^c  

^a Careggi Teaching Hospital   (Italy)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG INJURY; LUNG ULTRASOUND; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PLEURA EFFUSION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX SCINTISCANNING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE; LUNG; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; CRITICAL CARE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956420332     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ANE.0b013e3181e7cc42     Document Type: Article

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