Luna Gargani

TL;DR: This document reflects the overall results of the first consensus conference on “point-of-care” lung ultrasound and utilizes the RAND appropriateness method for panel judgment and decisions/consensus.

TL;DR: Ultrasonic lung comets represent a useful, practical, and appealingly simple way to image directly extravascular lung water and are ideally suited to complement conventional echocardiography in the evaluation of heart failure patients in the emergency department, in-hospital evaluation, home care, and stress echOCardiography lab.

TL;DR: LUS has proved to be useful in the evaluation of many different acute and chronic conditions, from cardiogenic pulmonary edema to acute lung injury, from pneumothorax to pneumonia, from interstitial lung disease to pulmonary infarctions and contusions.

TL;DR: The main application of lung ultrasound (LUS) for the cardiologist is the assessment of B-lines, which are reverberation artifacts, originating from water-thickened pulmonary interlobular septa, present in pulmonary congestion.

TL;DR: Lung ultrasound can detect asymptomatic pulmonary congestion in hemodialysis patients, and the resulting BL-US score is a strong, independent predictor of death and cardiac events in this population of patients.