A resource of the best in #POCUS ultrasound publications from the best in #POCUS providers around the world – dedicated to the fight against Covid-19.

Thank you to everyone who has poured their passion, time and energy into each and every one of these articles.

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September 2020

Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology

September 08: MONITORING OF THE REHABILITATION THERAPY OF COVID-19 EFFORT DYSPNEA

@ARRS_Radiology

September 04: Lung Ultrasound Findings in Patients With Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19)

@PLOSONE

September 03: Lung ultrasound score in establishing the timing of intubation in COVID-19 interstitial pneumonia: A preliminary retrospective observational study 

Ultrasound Int Open 2020

September 02: Comparison of Chest Ultrasound and Standard X-Ray Imaging in COVID-19 Patients

August 2020

Intensive Care Medicine

August 28: Lung ultrasound predicts clinical course and outcomes in COVID-19 patients 

Intensive Care Medicine

August 25: Lung ultrasonography as an alternative to chest computed tomography in COVID-19 pneumonia?

Journal of Clinical Ultrasound

August 21: Changes in lung ultrasound of symptomatic healthcare professionals with COVID‐19 pneumonia and their association with clinical findings

Chest

August 5: How I do it – Lung Ultrasound for Patients with COVID-19 Pulmonary Disease

Journal of Ultrasound

August 4: The use of contrast-enhanced ultrasound in COVID-19 lung imaging 

@PedRadJournal

August 4: Thoracic imaging of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in children: a series of 91 cases

July 2020

Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology

July 20: Lung Ultrasound May Support Diagnosis and Monitoring of COVID-19 Pneumonia

June 2020

@cianmcdermott

June 17: Utility of Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19: A Systematic Scoping Review

@WHO

June 11: Use of chest imaging in COVID-19

@cianmcdermott

June 11: Combatting COVID-19: Is Ultrasound an Important Piece in the Diagnostic Puzzle?

European Heart Journal – Cardiovascular Imaging, Volume 21, Issue 9, September 2020

June 09: Why, when, and how to use lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic: enthusiasm and caution

May 2020

UMB
May 6: Lung Ultrasound in Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure Reduces Conventional Imaging and Health Care Provider Exposure to COVID-19

Journal of Vascular Access
May 6: Vascular access in COVID-19 patients: Smart decisions for maximal safety

ISUOG @ISUOG
May 8: ISUOG Interim Guidance on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) during pregnancy and puerperium: information for healthcare professionals – an update

UMB

May 5: Lung Ultrasound in Children with COVID-19: Preliminary Findings

Afr J Emerg Med @AfJEM

May 5: Could lung ultrasound be used instead of auscultation?

ESICM @ESICM

May 5: What’s new in lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic Giovanni Volpicelli, Alessandro Lamorte & Tomás Villén

ESICM @ESICM

May 5: “No dose lung ultrasound correlation with low dose CT scan for early diagnosis of SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia

ASE @ASE360

May 5: Use of a protective shield successfully prevents exposure to aerosols and droplets during transesophageal echocardiography

CSANZ @thecsanz

May 5: COVID-19 and Acute Heart Failure: Screening the Critically Ill – A Position Statement of the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ)

Academic Radiology
May 5: Lung ultrasound in COVID-19 pneumonia; prospects and limitations

Radiography Journal @RadiographyJour
May 5: Point of care and intensive care lung ultrasound: A reference guide for practitioners during COVID-19

April 2020

ISUOG @ISUOG

Apr 28: Clinical role of lung ultrasound for the diagnosis and monitoring of COVID-19 pneumonia in pregnant women

Am J Trop Med Hyg @AJTMH

ISTH @isth

Apr 27: High incidence of venous thromboembolic events in anticoagulated severe COVID-19 patients

SDMS @TheSDMS

Apr 25: Sonography of the Lungs: Diagnosis and Surveillance of Patients With COVID-19

WINFOCUS @WINFOCUS

Apr 25: Excellent review in J of @Winfocus “Sonographic signs and patterns of #COVID19 #pneumonia” by @GioVolpicelli & ? @LunaGargani

Michael I. Prats @PratsEM

Apr 23: New #COVID19 category for the latest #POCUSforCOVID articles http://ultrasoundgel.org/articles

ESICM @ESICM

Apr 17: “No dose ”lung ultrasound correlation with “low dose ”CT scan for early diagnosis of SARS-COV-2 pneumonia

ESICM @ESICM ft @giovolpicelli @TomasVillen

Apr 17: What’s new in lung ultrasound during the Covid-19 pandemic

@AnnalsofEM

Apr 17: A Brief Review of Lung Ultrasound in COVID-19: Is it Useful?

@Anaes_Journal Sikachi and Agrawal

Apr 17: Whole body point of care ultrasound for COVID-19: a multi-system approach to a multi-system disease

eScholarship @eScholarship @NagdevArun

Apr 17: Early Multi-organ Point-of-Care Ultrasound Evaluation of Respiratory Distress During SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Case Report

Thieme UK @ThiemeUK Ultraschall in der Medizin European Journal of Ultrasound

Apr 16: Benefits, Open questions and Challenges of the use of Ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic era. The views of a panel of worldwide international experts

Apr 15: Lung ultrasound findings in a 64-year-old woman with COVID-19 Adam Thomas, Greg Haljan and Anish Mitra CMAJ April 14, 2020 192 (15) E399; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.200414

BMC @BioMedCentral Critical Care Journal

Using echocardiography to guide the treatment of novel coronavirus pneumonia

British Journal of Anaesthesia @BJAJournals

Apr 11: Early access @BJAJournals #COVID?19 article: Role of anaesthesiologists during the COVID-19 disease outbreak in China

British Journal of Anaesthesia @BJAJournals

Apr 11: Emergency tracheal intubation in 202 patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: lessons learnt and international expert recommendations

JASE @JournalASEcho

1 – Echo in Pandemic: Front Line Perspective, Expanding Role of Ultrasound and Ethics of Resource Allocation

2 – Utilization and Appropriateness of Transthoracic Echocardiography In Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

3 – Specific Considerations for Pediatric, Fetal, and Congenital Heart Disease Patients and Echocardiography Service Providers During the 2019 Novel Coronavirus Outbreak: Council on Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease Supplement to the Statement of the American Society of Echocardiography Endorsed by the Society of Pediatric Echocardiography and the Fetal Heart Society

4 – Bedside Focused Cardiac Ultrasound in COVID-19 Infection From the Wuhan Epicenter: The Role of Cardiac Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS), Limited Transthoracic Echocardiography and Critical Care Echocardiography

@Anaes_Journal ft @sonophysio @sminnes2 @icmteaching

Apr 11: Point-of-care lung ultrasound in patients with COVID-19– A narrative review

Via Journal of Cardiovascular Ultrasound and Allied Techniques

Apr 4: Our Italian Experience Using Lung Ultrasound for Identification, Grading and Serial Follow-up of Severity of Lung Involvement for Management of Patients with COVID-19 Luigi Vetrugno, Tiziana Bove, Daniele Orso, Federico Barbariol, Flavio Bassi, Enrico Boero, Giovanni Ferrari. Robert Kong, Daniel A. Lichtenstein

Wiley

Apr 4: Wiley have made lung ultrasound articles from the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine available for free

March 2020

AIUM @AIUMUltrasound

Proposal for international standardization of the use of lung ultrasound for COVID-19 patients; a simple, quantitative, reproducible method Soldati et. al, First published:30 March 2020 https://doi.org/10.1002/jum.15285

AIUM Ultrasound @AIUMultrasound

Mar 24: “Is there a role for lung ultrasound during the COVID-19 pandemic?”, a new Clinical Letter, is now available in the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine (JUM).

The Lancet @TheLancet

Mar 20: COVID-19 outbreak: less stethoscope, more ultrasound Danilo Buonsenso Davide Pata Antonio Chiaretti

Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci 2020; 24 (5): 2776-2780 DOI: 10.26355/eurrev_202003_20549

Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound findings in novel coronavirus disease-19 pnemoniae: a case report and potential applications during COVID-19 outbreak

Radiology https://doi.org/10.1148/radiol.2020200847

Mar 13: Can Lung US Help Critical Care Clinicians in the Early Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pneumonia?

Jim Tsung MD @JTsungMD·

Mar 19: My paper on pediatric lung consolidation locations using #pocus

Jack Ma @JackMa

Mar 18: Handbook of Covid-19 prevention – Hospitals in outbreak countries will face huge challenges coping with the surge of patients. The clinical practitioners on the front lines of China’s fight against COVID-19 have developed a handbook of treatment and care protocols for healthcare providers. I need your help to share this handbook quickly to hospitals, doctors, nurses and anyone who needs to know around the world

Intensive Care Med https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-020-05996-6

March 12: Findings of lung ultrasonography of novel corona virus pneumonia during the 2019–2020 epidemic Qian-Yi Peng1 , Xiao-Ting Wang2*, Li-Na Zhang1* and Chinese Critical Care Ultrasound Study Group (CCUSG)

February 2020

Research Square DOI: 10.21203/rs.2.24369/v1

Feb 26: RESEARCH ARTICLE | Infectious Diseases – Pulmonology : A preliminary study on the ultrasonic manifestations of peripulmonary lesions of non-critical novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19)

July 2012

Crit Ultrasound J. 2012; 4(1): 16. Published online 2012 Jul 10. doi: 10.1186/2036-7902-4-16

Prospective application of clinician-performed lung ultrasonography during the 2009 H1N1 influenza A pandemic: distinguishing viral from bacterial pneumonia