Medical ultrasonography
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Medical ultrasonography · Feb 2019
ReviewPreoperative difficult airway prediction using suprahyoid and infrahyoid ultrasonography derived measurements in anesthesiology.
Airway management is one of the most important skills in everyday practice of anesthesia. Improper airway management might contribute to significant morbidity and mortality. In some patients, clinical parameters do not anticipate all difficulties related to airway management. ⋯ For the evaluation of the tongue, measurements such as thickness, cross-sectional area, width, volume and tongue-to-oral cavityratio can be used. Thus, anesthesiologists have many available potential US measurements, which could provide information regarding airway anatomy during the preoperative airway assessment and could serve as potential screening parameters for difficult airway. Still, we do not yet know which of these provides optimal predictive accuracy and larger sample size studiesare required to validate their use in the preoperative evaluation of the airway.
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Medical ultrasonography · Feb 2019
Comparative StudyVisual versus automatic ultrasound scoring of lung B-lines: reliability and consistency between systems.
To evaluate the agreement between a visual and an automatic counting system of lung B-lines by ultrasound (US) as well as to test the inter- and intra-observer reliability of both systems in patients with lung diseases. ⋯ US automatic counting was consistent with US visual counting of lung B-lines, as performed by experts in the field. Both systems showed a high intra- and interobserver reliability.