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