Title:Role of Pulmonary Ultrasound in COVID-19 Pandemics
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Author(s):Daniil Starostin* and Artem Kuzovlev
Affiliation:Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow, Federal Research and Clinical Center of Intensive Care Medicine and Rehabilitology, Moscow
Keywords:Coronavirus, COVID-19, lung ultrasound, pneumonia, type II alveolar cells (AT2), X-rays.
Abstract:Currently, there is a lot of clinical data on the basics of lung ultrasound (US) examination
in patients with COVID-19. This article is focused on the principles of pneumonia diagnosis.
It is established that the use of ultrasound can be informative at the prehospital stage and triage of
patients and also detection of mild forms of the course of the disease.
