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Comment
. 2021 Jan;97(1143):62-63.
doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-137853. Epub 2020 May 13.

Point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 pandemic

Sanjeev Bhoi  1 , Ankit Kumar Sahu  2 , Roshan Mathew  1 , Tej Prakash Sinha  1
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Point-of-care ultrasound in COVID-19 pandemic

Sanjeev Bhoi et al. Postgrad Med J. 2021 Jan.
No abstract available

Keywords: accident & emergency medicine; adult intensive & critical care; ultrasonography.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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Integration of POCUS in COVID-19 patient management. *Suspected or confirmed COVID-19 case on the basis of recent WHO case definitions. $Severity of cases: mild disease: no pneumonia or pneumonia; severe disease: dyspnoea or tachypnoea (respiratory rate>30 breaths/min); or critical disease: respiratory failure, septic shock or multiorgan dysfunction. **Differentiation of ARDS from CPE on the basis of presence of bilateral pleural line abnormality (thickening>2 mm, coarse pleural line), small subpleural consolidations, ‘spared areas’ in between B-lines, ‘lung pulse’ and reduced or absent lung sliding. ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; CPE, cardiogenic pulmonary oedema; ED, emergency department; IVC, inferior vena cava; POCUS, point-of-care ultrasonography.
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