• Crit Care · Dec 2020

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    Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound for COVID-19 (PoCUS4COVID): international expert consensus.

    • Arif Hussain, Gabriele Via, Lawrence Melniker, Alberto Goffi, Guido Tavazzi, Luca Neri, Tomas Villen, Richard Hoppmann, Francesco Mojoli, Vicki Noble, Laurent Zieleskiewicz, Pablo Blanco, MaIrene W YIWYDivision of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada., Mahathar Abd Wahab, Abdulmohsen Alsaawi, Majid Al Salamah, Martin Balik, Diego Barca, Karim Bendjelid, Belaid Bouhemad, Pablo Bravo-Figueroa, Raoul Breitkreutz, Juan Calderon, Jim Connolly, Roberto Copetti, Francesco Corradi, Anthony J Dean, André Denault, Deepak Govil, Carmela Graci, Young-Rock Ha, Laura Hurtado, Toru Kameda, Michael Lanspa, Christian B Laursen, Francis Lee, Rachel Liu, Massimiliano Meineri, Miguel Montorfano, Peiman Nazerian, Bret P Nelson, Aleksandar N Neskovic, Ramon Nogue, Adi Osman, José Pazeli, Elmo Pereira-Junior, Tomislav Petrovic, Emanuele Pivetta, Jan Poelaert, Susanna Price, Gregor Prosen, Shalim Rodriguez, Philippe Rola, Colin Royse, ChenYale TungYTDepartment of Emergency Medicine, Hospital Universitario La Paz, Madrid, Spain., Mike Wells, Adrian Wong, Wang Xiaoting, Wang Zhen, and Yaseen Arabi.
    • Department of Cardiac Sciences, King Abdulaziz Medical City and King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. hussain_pscc@hotmail.com.
    • Crit Care. 2020 Dec 24; 24 (1): 702702.

    AbstractCOVID-19 has caused great devastation in the past year. Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) including lung ultrasound (LUS) and focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) as a clinical adjunct has played a significant role in triaging, diagnosis and medical management of COVID-19 patients. The expert panel from 27 countries and 6 continents with considerable experience of direct application of PoCUS on COVID-19 patients presents evidence-based consensus using GRADE methodology for the quality of evidence and an expedited, modified-Delphi process for the strength of expert consensus. The use of ultrasound is suggested in many clinical situations related to respiratory, cardiovascular and thromboembolic aspects of COVID-19, comparing well with other imaging modalities. The limitations due to insufficient data are highlighted as opportunities for future research.

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