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Point of Care Lung Diagnostic in ICU – Our Experience with Bedside Lung Ultrasound

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Lung ultrasound as a Point of Care (POC) diagnostic technique might be a helpful tool in clinical decision making in critically ill patients. The aim of this study is to present 6 months experience of using lung ultrasound as a point of care tool in ICU. We performed a retrospective study of clinical records in patients with respiratory failure hospitalized in the ICU. The examination was made according to the BLUE Protocol (1). LUS was used in 48 out of 180 patients (26.6%). Pathological findings were noted in 42 patients (87,5%). Pleural effusion was detected in 10 patients (23.8%). Signs of interstital syndrome were detected in 21 patients (50%). Two patients (4.7%) had pneumothorax. Lung consolidation was detected in 18 patients (42.8%); 8 patients (44.5%) with pneumonia and 10 patients (55,5%) with atelectasis. According to the results of the LUS in 19 patients (45.3%) some sort of invasive procedure was undertaken. In 7 patients (36,8%) thoracic drainage was performed and bronchoaspiration in 4 patients (21%). In 12 patients (63.1%), mechanical ventilation was initiated. POCLUS is a helpful tool for rapid assessment of underlying pathological substrate in critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure having important role in clinical decision making.

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  1. Department of Anesthesia, Reanimation and Intensive Care, University “St. Cyril and Methodius”, Skopje, North Macedonia

    Filip Naumovski & Biljana Kuzmanovska

  2. Department of Anesthesia, Reanimation and Intensive Care, University Clinical Center Mother Theresa, Skopje, North Macedonia

    Filip Naumovski & Biljana Kuzmanovska

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  1. Faculty of Technical Sciences, University Prof. D-r Asen Zlatarov, Burgas, Bulgaria

    Sotir S. Sotirov

  2. Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Tania Pencheva

  3. Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

  4. Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Krassimir T. Atanassov

  5. Intelligent Systems Laboratory, University Prof. D-r Asen Zlatarov, Burgas, Bulgaria

    Evdokia Sotirova

  6. Institute of Biophysics and Biomedical Engineering, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Galya Staneva

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Naumovski, F., Kuzmanovska, B. (2022). Point of Care Lung Diagnostic in ICU – Our Experience with Bedside Lung Ultrasound. In: Sotirov, S.S., Pencheva, T., Kacprzyk, J., Atanassov, K.T., Sotirova, E., Staneva, G. (eds) Contemporary Methods in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine and Their Applications. BioInfoMed 2020. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 374. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96638-6_5

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