Perioperative care with an ultrasound device is as Michael Jordan with Scotty Pippen: at its best!

Jip Nooitgedacht¹, Mark Haaksma¹, Hugo R W Touw², Pieter R Tuinman^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
³ Amsterdam Leiden Intensive Care Focused Echography (ALIFE).

Editorial

Jip Nooitgedacht et al. J Thorac Dis. 2018 Dec.

. 2018 Dec;10(12):6436-6441.

doi: 10.21037/jtd.2018.12.82.

Jip Nooitgedacht¹, Mark Haaksma¹, Hugo R W Touw², Pieter R Tuinman^{1

3}

¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Department of Intensive Care Medicine, Radboud University Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
³ Amsterdam Leiden Intensive Care Focused Echography (ALIFE).

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

Chest ultrasonography and X-ray may be perfectly integrated in patients management after thoracic surgery such as Shaq and Kobe.
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