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GENERAL MEDICINE/SYSTEMATIC REVIEW SNAPSHOT • Is Chest Ultrasonography Superior to Supine Chest Radiography in Identifying Pneumothorax in Emergency Department Trauma Patients?

In this clinical synopsis, the authors included 9 studies comprising 1,271 patients with 410 pneumothoraces from an initial 2,293 references. The median prevalence of traumatic pneumothorax was 30% (range 21% to 52%). The overall sensitivity of chest ultrasonography was 0.91......
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ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY IN COVID-19 • The Predictive Role of Combined Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound in Coronavirus Disease 2019

Despite the recognition of the prognostic significance and clinical implications of the cardiac complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), both the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging and the American Society of Echocardiography recommend limiting the echocardiographic assessme...
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH • Pneumothorax Diagnosis with Lung Sliding Quantification by Speckle Tracking: A Prospective Multicentric Observational Study

Lung ultrasound is commonly used for the diagnosis of pneumothorax, when the absence of pleural sliding, B-lines and lung pulse, or by the presence of a lung point, has been recommended to make the ultrasound diagnosis of pneumothorax......
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