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J Am Soc Echocardiogr · Jun 2020
Review Case ReportsBedside Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in COVID-19 from the Wuhan Epicenter: The Role of Cardiac Point-of-Care Ultrasound, Limited Transthoracic Echocardiography, and Critical Care Echocardiography.
- Li Zhang, Bin Wang, Jianhua Zhou, James Kirkpatrick, Mingxing Xie, and Amer M Johri.
- Department of Ultrasound, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
- J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2020 Jun 1; 33 (6): 676-682.
BackgroundThree cases of the application of focused cardiac ultrasound in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 are presented.MethodsCardiac point-of-care ultrasound, limited transthoracic echocardiography, and critical care echocardiography were applied in cases of heart failure, pulmonary embolism, and myocarditis with thrombus respectively.ResultsThe impact on patient management and the global context of each presentation are discussed.ConclusionsFocused cardiac point-of-care ultrasound played an important, front-line role in the bedside management of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China.Copyright © 2020 American Society of Echocardiography. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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