Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19: Sweeping the Surface or Sounding the Depths

Affiliations

¹ Department of Critical Care, Barts Heart Centre, Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, England.
² Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: cbass@alum.mit.edu.

Editorial

Olusegun Olusanya et al. Chest. 2023 Jan.

. 2023 Jan;163(1):12-13.

doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.08.2226.

¹ Department of Critical Care, Barts Heart Centre, Saint Bartholomew's Hospital, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, England.
² Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. Electronic address: cbass@alum.mit.edu.

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Comment on

Feasibility of a New Lung Ultrasound Protocol to Determine the Extent of Lung Injury in COVID-19 Pneumonia.
Volpicelli G, Fraccalini T, Cardinale L, Stranieri G, Senkeev R, Maggiani G, Pacielli A, Basile D. Volpicelli G, et al. Chest. 2023 Jan;163(1):176-184. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2022.07.014. Epub 2022 Jul 31. Chest. 2023. PMID: 35921882 Free PMC article.

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