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Lung Ultrasound in Critical Care and Trauma

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Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) in the intensive care unit allows for a rapid, repeatable, noninvasive bedside assessment of critically ill patients who often are too acutely ill to transport or to wait for definitive diagnostic testing. Used as an extension of the physical exam, POCUS enhances a clinician’s approach to shock and cardiorespiratory failure, with the lung component forming a key part of the overall holistic assessment of the patient.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Jung-Un Choi

  2. King Saud Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

    Abdulrahman Alharthy & Dimitrios Karakitsos

  3. University of Southern California, Keck Medical School, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Dimitrios Karakitsos

  4. Winnipeg, MB, Canada

    Lawrence M. Gillman

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View from the PLAPS (posterior and/or lateral alveolar and/or pleural syndrome) point in a patient with a pleural effusion and consolidated lung. Hyperechoic areas within the lung represent sonographic air bronchograms (MP4 2936 kb)

Sonographic view of a “white lung” consisting of innumerable overlapping B-lines (MP4 2944 kb)

Sonographic view utilizing a high-frequency linear array demonstrating a safe area to perform thoracentesis (MP4 2717 kb)

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Choi, JU., Alharthy, A., Karakitsos, D., Gillman, L.M. (2020). Lung Ultrasound in Critical Care and Trauma. In: Feletti, F., Malta, B., Aliverti, A. (eds) Thoracic Ultrasound and Integrated Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93055-8_11

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