Recommendations for Lung Ultrasound in Internal Medicine

Overview

Journal Diagnostics (Basel)

Specialty Radiology

Date 2020 Aug 23

PMID 32824302

Citations 34

Authors

Natalia Buda

Wojciech Kosiak

Marcin Welnicki

Agnieszka Skoczylas

Robert Olszewski

Jakub Piotrkowski

Szymon Skoczynski

Elzbieta Radzikowska

Ewa Jassem

Elzbieta Magdalena Grabczak

Piotr Kwasniewicz

Gebhard Mathis

Tudor P Toma

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Abstract

A growing amount of evidence prompts us to update the first version of recommendations for lung ultrasound in internal medicine (POLLUS-IM) that was published in 2018. The recommendations were established in several stages, consisting of: literature review, assessment of literature data quality (with the application of QUADAS, QUADAS-2 and GRADE criteria) and expert evaluation carried out consistently with the modified Delphi method (three rounds of on-line discussions, followed by a secret ballot by the panel of experts after each completed discussion). Publications to be analyzed were selected from the following databases: Pubmed, Medline, OVID, and Embase. New reports published as of October 2019 were added to the existing POLLUS-IM database used for the original publication of 2018. Altogether, 528 publications were systematically reviewed, including 253 new reports published between September 2017 and October 2019. The new recommendations concern the following conditions and issues: pneumonia, heart failure, monitoring dialyzed patients' hydration status, assessment of pleural effusion, pulmonary embolism and diaphragm function assessment. POLLUS-IM 2020 recommendations were established primarily for clinicians who utilize lung ultrasound in their everyday clinical work.

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