Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound for COVID-19 (PoCUS4COVID): international expert consensus

Author

Hussain, Arif

Via, Gabriele

Melniker, Lawrence

Gof, Alberto

Tavazzi, Guido

Neri, Luca

Villen, Tomas

Hoppmann, Richard

Mojoli, Francesco

Noble, Vicki

Zieleskiewicz, Laurent

Blanco, Pablo

Ma, Irene W. Y.

Wahab, Mahathar Abd.

Alsaawi, Abdulmohsen

Salamah, Majid Al

Balik, Martin

Barca, Diego

Bendjelid, Karim

Bouhemad, Belaid

Bravo‑Figueroa, Pablo

Breitkreutz, Raoul

Calderon, Juan

Connolly, Jim

Copetti, Roberto

Corradi, Francesco

Dean, Anthony J.

Denault, André

Govil, Deepak

Graci, Carmela

Ha, Young‑Rock

Hurtado, Laura

Kameda, Toru

Lanspa, Michael

Laursen, Christian B.

Lee, Francis

Liu, Rachel

Meineri, Massimiliano

Montorfano, Miguel

Nazerian, Peiman

Nelson, Bret P.

Neskovic, Aleksandar N.

Nogue Bou, Ramon Maria

Osman, Adi

Pazeli, José

Pereira‑Junior, Elmo

Petrovic, Tomislav

Pivetta, Emanuele

Poelaert, Jan

Price, Susanna

Prosen, Gregor

Rodriguez, Shalim

Rola, Philippe

Royse, Colin

Chen, Yale Tung

Wells, Mike

Wong, Adrian

Xiaoting, Wang

Zhen, Wang

Arabi, Yaseen

Publication date

2021-02-15T10:21:55Z

2021-02-15T10:21:55Z

2020



Abstract

COVID-19 has caused great devastation in the past year. Multi-organ point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) including lung ultrasound (LUS) and focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) as a clinical adjunct has played a signifcant role in triaging, diagnosis and medical management of COVID-19 patients. The expert panel from 27 countries and 6 continents with considerable experience of direct application of PoCUS on COVID-19 patients presents evidence-based consensus using GRADE methodology for the quality of evidence and an expedited, modifed-Delphi process for the strength of expert consensus. The use of ultrasound is suggested in many clinical situations related to respiratory, cardiovascular and thromboembolic aspects of COVID-19, comparing well with other imaging modalities. The limitations due to insufcient data are highlighted as opportunities for future research.

Document Type

Article
Published version

Language

English

Subjects and keywords

COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; Point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS); Focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS); Lung ultrasound (LUS); Echocardiography

Publisher

BMC

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Reproducció del document publicat a https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03369-5

Critical Care, 2020, vol. 24, núm. 1, p. 702

Rights

cc-by, (c) Hussain et al., 2020

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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