Point-of-care Lung Ultrasound Is Useful to Evaluate Emergency Department Patients for COVID-19

Introduction: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can be a life-threatening lung disease or a trivial upper respiratory infection depending on whether the alveoli are involved. Emergency department (ED) evaluation of symptomatic patients with normal vital signs is frequently limited to chest auscult...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paul Walsh, Andrea Hankins, Heejung Bang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eScholarship Publishing, University of California 2020-09-01
Series:Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
Online Access:https://escholarship.org/uc/item/41q6k43n