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Focused POCUS Lung and Cardiac Ultrasound Exams in COVID-19 Patients
1. Turn machine on / Enter patient
Focused POCUS Lung ... Select phased-array probe ... With probe marker ... views of right lung ... Consider linear probe
Lung POCUS: Shred sign in patient with non-translobar consolidation. Phased array probe used.

Dr. Robert Jones @RJonesSonoEM

#ShredSign
Lung POCUS: Shred ... Phased array probe ... Consolidation #Pneumonia #Lung
Pneumothorax on Lung Ultrasound

Using the trapezoidal option extending the field of view laterally using the linear
Pneumothorax on Lung ... using the linear probe ... #Pneumothorax #Lung
Proposed Pathophysiology of COVID19 Lung Injury

COVID19 Lung Injury model schematic based on 1) ACUTE thrombotic vascular
Pathophysiology of COVID19 Lung ... Injury COVID19 Lung ... accounting for prone
COVID-19 - Awake Self-Proning

Physiology of proning:
 - more homogenous ventilation
 - decrease ventral-dorsal transpulmonary pressure difference
difference - decrease lung ... 5 #proning #prone
Lung Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Probe Selection
Technique
Findings on Lung Ultrasound

#POCUS #LUNG #Pulmonary #diagnosis
Lung Point of Care ... Ultrasound (POCUS) Probe ... Technique Findings on Lung ... Ultrasound #POCUS #LUNG
General schema for respiratory support in patients with COVID-19
Low flow nasal cannula
 • Typically set at
useful to allow for lung-protective ... use conventional lung-protective ... Prone positioning ... indication for prone
False Lung Point on Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS)

Your patient is stable but has diminished breath
False Lung Point ... Lung ultrasound ... You slide the probe ... to where your probe ... you moved the probe
Lung POCUS: Irregular pleural line with B-lines.  Subpleural consolidation better seen with linear probe.

Dr. Robert
Lung POCUS: Irregular ... seen with linear probe ... Viral #Pneumonia #Lung
Lung POCUS: Large echogenic right parapneumonic effusion in patient with bacterial pneumonia/sepsis. Phased array probe used.

Dr.
Lung POCUS: Large ... Phased array probe ... Pleural #Effusion #Lung