Thoracic ultrasound: a review of the state-of-the-art
Philippe de Figueiredo Braga Colares1,2,
Thiago Thomaz Mafort3,
Felipe Marquesini Sanches1
et al.
Abstract:Thoracic ultrasound (TUS) is a tool that has become increasingly essential in the daily practice of thoracic medicine. Driven by the need to assess patients during the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increase in the use of point-of-care TUS, which has demonstrated several benefits, either as a complement to clinical decision-making for diagnosis or as a real-time guide for procedures, whether as a predictor or measure of treatment response. Here, we present a review of TUS, based on the most recent scient… Show more
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