Should lung ultrasonography be more widely used in the assessment of acute respiratory disease?

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 533-538

  Lichtenstein, Daniel ^a  

^a HÔPITAL AMBROISE PARÉ   (France)

Author keywords

acute circulatory failure; acute respiratory failure; ARDS; intensive care unit; lung ultrasound; pneumonia; pneumothorax; pulmonary edema

Indexed keywords

ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ANESTHESIST; ASTHMA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; ECHOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; IRRADIATION; LUNG ALVEOLUS SURFACE TENSION; LUNG EDEMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; NEWBORN CARE; PHYSICIAN; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX;

EID: 77957975974     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.10.51     Document Type: Editorial

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