Early recognition of the 2009 pandemic influenza A (H1N1) pneumonia by chest ultrasound

Critical Care

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Testa, Americo ^a   Soldati, Gino ^b   Copetti, Roberto ^c   Giannuzzi, Rosangela ^a   Portale, Grazia ^c   Gentiloni Silveri, Nicolò ^a  

^a FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

^b Castelnuovo Garfagnana Hospital   (Italy)

^c S Antonio Abate General Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; FLU LIKE SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFLUENZA A (H1N1); LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H1N1; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; VERY ELDERLY; VIROLOGY; VIRUS PNEUMONIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H1N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANDEMICS; PNEUMONIA, VIRAL; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 84857006526     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/cc11201     Document Type: Article

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