Maadarani, Ossama and Bitar, Zouheir and Zaalouk, Tamer and Mohsen, Mohammad and Elshabasy, Ragab (2020) Point-of-Care Ultrasound Can Suggest COVID-19. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (9). pp. 1-4. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the World Health Organization (WHO) declared it a pandemic on 11 March 2020. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is a real-time bedside tool used by physicians to guide rapid, focused and accurate evaluation in order to identify or rule out various pathologies. We describe the case of an elderly man who had fallen at home 3 days previously and was hypoxic at presentation to the emergency department (ED). POCUS in the ED helped to identify a combination of lung and vascular involvement that indicated COVID-19 infection, which was confirmed by a laboratory test.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19, POCUS, B lines, flashing phenomenon, pulmonary embolism |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Dec 2021 12:18 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Dec 2021 12:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20978 |
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