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1. Instrument settings and probe selection
NOTE: Lung POCUS can be performed with a multitude of transducers depending on what question needs to be answered.
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Diagnostic POCUS is the use of ultrasound at the bedside by a patient&#39;s primary treatment provider to answer clinical questions. The questions most amenable to diagnostic POCUS are those that are qualitative or binary in nature and that need to be answered faster than would be possible or practical with consultative ultrasound services.
A few steps are critical for image acquisition. The first one is probe selection. The authors recommend that the initial assessment be performed using the ...

Over the past several decades, bedside decision-making and treatment have increasingly been augmented by point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). POCUS is the use of ultrasound for diagnostic or procedural guidance by a patient&#39;s primary treatment provider. This is in contrast to consultative ultrasound, where the ultrasound exam is requested by a patient&#39;s primary treatment provider but is performed by a separate specialist team1.
This narrative review focuses on diagnostic POCUS of a specific organ system: the lungs. Diagnostic POCUS of the lungs has proven useful in the acute care setting, allowing the diagnosis of potentially life-threatening conditions in scenarios of respiratory failure, shock, trauma, chest pain, and other situations2. Further, procedural lung POCUS is being used to guide needle placement in percutaneous thoracentesis3 and lung recruitment maneuvers4. However, despite its clinical significance, lung POCUS proficiency among physicians&#160;is variable5, limiting the appropriate use of this modality. The purpose of this review is to describe a time-efficient yet thorough image acquisition protocol for diagnostic lung POCUS in adults and to illustrate abnormal findings commonly found in clinical practice. The method described herein is not suitable for newborns and small infants. For information regarding lung POCUS imaging techniques and interpretation in this particular age group, the reader is invited to refer to specific literature6,7.
There are multiple imaging protocols described in the literature, varying from four-point to 28-point exams depending on how much time is available and what questions the exam is seeking to answer8. While the diagnostic accuracy for certain pathologies might be higher when more points are scanned, a focused six-point protocol offers a reasonable trade-off between efficiency and diagnostic accuracy2,9,10,11,12.

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			<td>Edge 1 ultrasound machine</td>
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			<td>Used to obtain two of the abnormal images/clips (Figures 11 and 12)</td>
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			<td>Affiniti ultrasound machine</td>
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point-of-care lung ultrasound in adults: image acquisition

Consultative ultrasound performed by radiologists has traditionally not been used for imaging the lungs, as the lungs&#39; air-filled nature normally prevents direct visualization of the lung parenchyma. When showing the lung parenchyma, ultrasound typically generates a number of non-anatomic artifacts. However, over the past several decades, these artifacts have been studied by diagnostic point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) practitioners, who have identified findings that have value in narrowing the differential diagnoses of cardiopulmonary dysfunction. For instance, in patients presenting with dyspnea, lung POCUS is superior to chest radiography (CXR) for the diagnosis of pneumothorax, pulmonary edema, lung consolidations, and pleural effusions. Despite its known diagnostic value, the utilization of lung POCUS in clinical medicine remains variable, in part because training in this modality across hospitals remains inconsistent. To address this educational gap, this narrative review describes lung POCUS image acquisition in adults, including patient positioning, transducer selection, probe placement, acquisition sequence, and image optimization.

Normal lung ultrasound findings&#160;(Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, Video 5, Video 6, and Supplementary File 1) 
Due to the marked discrepancy in acoustic impedance between the air in the lungs and the superficial tissues, normally all the ultrasound energy that reaches the interface of the parietal and visceral pleurae is immediately reflected back to the ultrasound transducer. As a result, at the depth of the lung parenchyma, the image seen on the screen of an ultrasound machine normally sho...

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Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in Adults: Image Acquisition

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) of the lungs provides quick answers in rapidly changing clinical scenarios. We present an efficient and informative protocol for image acquisition for use in acute care settings.

Consultative ultrasound performed by radiologists has traditionally not been used for imaging the lungs, as the lungs&#39; air-filled nature normally ...

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4.8K vistas.  Duke University School of Medicine. Este protocolo es un enfoque simple pero de alto rendimiento para la adquisición de imágenes de ultrasonido pulmonar que evalúa tres zonas por hemitórax para detectar patología plural y pulmonar. Esta técnica toma muestras eficientes de cada uno de los cinco lóbulos del pulmón, en contraste con protocolos más cortos que omiten por completo las zonas pulmonares posteriores, o protocolos más largos que consumen mucho tiempo. Todo este protocolo puede ser realizado por proveedores de c...