Lung Ultrasound in Critically Ill Infants and Children
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Lung ultrasound in the critically ill
Lung ultrasound is a basic application of critical ultrasound, defined as a loop associating urgent diagnoses with immediate therapeutic decisions. It requires the mastery of ten signs: the bat sign (pleural line), lung sliding (yielding seashore sign), the A-line (horizontal artifact), the quad sign, and sinusoid sign indicating pleural effusion, the fractal, and tissue-like sign indicating lu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0301-5629
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2014.12.394