TY - JOUR
T1 - Lung ultrasonography for early management of patients with respiratory symptoms during COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Smargiassi, Andrea
AU - Soldati, Gino
AU - Borghetti, Alberto
AU - Scoppettuolo, Giancarlo
AU - Tamburrini, Enrica
AU - Testa, Antonia Carla
AU - Moro, Francesca
AU - Natale, Luigi
AU - Larici, Anna Rita
AU - Buonsenso, Danilo
AU - Valentini, Piero
AU - Draisci, Gaetano
AU - Zanfini, Bruno Antonio
AU - Pompili, Maurizio
AU - Scambia, Giovanni
AU - Lanzone, Antonio
AU - Franceschi, Francesco
AU - Rapaccini, Gian Ludovico
AU - Gasbarrini, Antonio
AU - Giorgini, Paolo
AU - Richeldi, Luca
AU - Demi, Libertario
AU - Inchingolo, Riccardo
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - COVID-19 pandemic is representing a serious challenge to worldwide public health. Lung Ultrasonography (LUS) has been signaled as a potential useful tool in this pandemic contest either to intercept viral pneumonia or to foster alternative paths. LUS could be useful in determining early lung involvement suggestive or not of COVID-19 pneumonia and potentially plays a role in managing decisions for hospitalization in isolation or admission in general ward. In order to face pandemic, in a period in which a large number of emergency room accesses with suspicious symptoms are expected, physicians need a standardized ultrasonographic approach, fast educational processes in order to be able to recognize both suggestive and not suggestive echographic signs and shared algorithms for LUS role in early management of patients.
AB - COVID-19 pandemic is representing a serious challenge to worldwide public health. Lung Ultrasonography (LUS) has been signaled as a potential useful tool in this pandemic contest either to intercept viral pneumonia or to foster alternative paths. LUS could be useful in determining early lung involvement suggestive or not of COVID-19 pneumonia and potentially plays a role in managing decisions for hospitalization in isolation or admission in general ward. In order to face pandemic, in a period in which a large number of emergency room accesses with suspicious symptoms are expected, physicians need a standardized ultrasonographic approach, fast educational processes in order to be able to recognize both suggestive and not suggestive echographic signs and shared algorithms for LUS role in early management of patients.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Lung Ultrasound
KW - Sonographic interstitial syndrome
KW - COVID-19
KW - Lung Ultrasound
KW - Sonographic interstitial syndrome
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/273355
U2 - 10.1007/s40477-020-00501-7
DO - 10.1007/s40477-020-00501-7
M3 - Article
SN - 1876-7931
VL - 23
SP - 449
EP - 456
JO - JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND
JF - JOURNAL OF ULTRASOUND
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