Take Home Points:
- Lung ultrasound is simple, quick and accurate for real time, bedside assessment of your patient with acute undifferentiated dyspnea
- PTX: least dependent area, shallow depth, lung sliding, lung point
- CHF: scan across the 4 zones of the chest, look for B lines
- Bringing this to the bedside can give you diagnostic closure quickly!
REBEL Core Cast 72.0 – Lung Ultrasound
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REFERENCES:
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4098927/#!po=21.8750
- https://rebelem.com/ultrasound-detection-pneumothorax/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0422763816302278
Shownotes By: Shawn Sethi, MD
Post Peer Reviewed By: Salim R. Rezaie, MD (Twitter: @srrezaie)
Cite this article as: Anand Swaminathan, "REBEL Core Cast 72.0 – Lung US", REBEL EM blog, January 12, 2022. Available at: https://rebelem.com/rebel-core-cast-72-0-lung-us/.
