• Andrea Smargiassi, Gino Soldati, Alberto Borghetti, Giancarlo Scoppettuolo, Enrica Tamburrini, Antonia Carla Testa, Francesca Moro, Luigi Natale, Larici Anna Rita AR Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Oncological Radiotherapy and Hematology, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, 00168, Rome, Italy. , Danilo Buonsenso, Piero Valentini, Gaetano Draisci, Bruno Antonio Zanfini, Maurizio Pompili, Giovanni Scambia, Antonio Lanzone, Francesco Franceschi, Gian Ludovico Rapaccini, Antonio Gasbarrini, Paolo Giorgini, Luca Richeldi, Libertario Demi, and Riccardo Inchingolo.
• Pulmonary Medicine Unit, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Largo Gemelli, 8, 00168, Rome, Italy.
• J Ultrasound. 2020 Dec 1; 23 (4): 449-456.

AbstractCOVID-19 pandemic is representing a serious challenge to worldwide public health. Lung Ultrasonography (LUS) has been signaled as a potential useful tool in this pandemic contest either to intercept viral pneumonia or to foster alternative paths. LUS could be useful in determining early lung involvement suggestive or not of COVID-19 pneumonia and potentially plays a role in managing decisions for hospitalization in isolation or admission in general ward. In order to face pandemic, in a period in which a large number of emergency room accesses with suspicious symptoms are expected, physicians need a standardized ultrasonographic approach, fast educational processes in order to be able to recognize both suggestive and not suggestive echographic signs and shared algorithms for LUS role in early management of patients.

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