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Ultrasound in the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic: Summary of Applications, Advantages, and Limitations

EasyChair Preprint 9737, version 1

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2 pagesDate: February 19, 2023

Abstract

COVID-19 is caused by the coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) that may promote a severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), pneumonia and hypoxemia. Ultrasonography has been used for decades as a tool to detect biological tissues abnormality, although its B-mode imaging has only recently been used in lung exams. The aim of this paper is to report documents related to the use of ultrasound as a tool to evaluate COVID-19 during the first pandemics year. Lung ultrasound has been shown as an important tool regarding an early and reliable way to diagnostic lung symptoms of respiratory diseases and for patients’ follow-up.

Keyphrases: ARDS, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Ultrasound imaging, lung ultrasonography

BibTeX entry
BibTeX does not have the right entry for preprints. This is a hack for producing the correct reference:
@booklet{EasyChair:9737,
  author    = {Fellipe Silva and Tiago Dourado and Andre Alvarenga and Wagner Pereira and Rodrigo Costa-Felix},
  title     = {Ultrasound in the Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic: Summary of Applications, Advantages, and Limitations},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 9737},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2023}}
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