Pulmonology

Point-of-care Ultrasound

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Under what circumstances do you recommend POCUS guidance for lumbar puncture?

What do you think about using conventional thoracic imaging methods (e.g., X-ray, CT, etc.) to determine if a pleural effusion is of adequate size to consider thoracentesis?

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How do you decide whether to use lung POCUS versus CT as the next step when a chest X-ray is equivocal for pneumonia?

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How do you recommend incorporating B-lines on lung POCUS as part of evaluating a patient's volume status?

In particular, how do you reconcile situations where lung POCUS findings contradict other components of volume assessment (e.g. JVD, peripheral edema,...

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How do you use cardiac POCUS to potentially defer formal echocardiogram in patients presenting with an acute pulmonary embolism?

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Papers discussed in this category

Critical care medicine, 2017-12

Diagnostic Accuracy of Point-of-Care Ultrasound Performed by Pulmonary Critical Care Physicians for Right Ventricle Assessment in Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism.

Annals of emergency medicine, 2006-01

Prevalence of negative chest radiography results in the emergency department patient with decompensated heart failure.

Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, 2019-01

Ultrasound-assisted Lumbar Punctures: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Neurology. Clinical practice, 2020 Aug

Ultrasound-guided lumbar puncture improves success rate and efficiency in overweight patients.

Cureus, 2020 Nov 18

Feel It, See It, Get It: Is Internal Medicine Residents' Use of Ultrasound in Lumbar Puncture Associated With Higher Success Rate?

Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 2024 Jun

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Workup of Pleural Effusion or Pleural Disease.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2010-02

Differentiation of pleural effusions from parenchymal opacities: accuracy of bedside chest radiography.

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