Lung ultrasonography has been used for diagnosis and treatment in many departments including intensive care before the pandemic. The gold standard method for the diagnosis of pneumonia is still chest tomography. Ultrasonography, which has advantages over tomography, has also been tried to be used in covid 19 pneumonia.
In this study, it was aimed to investigate the efficiency of lung ultrasonography in diagnosis of covid 19 pneumonia.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
60
Application of 12 zone lung ultrasonography protocol using the konvex ultrasound probe (2-6 MHz)
University of Health Sciences, Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital
Bursa, Turkey (Türkiye)
Relationship between Thoracic CT imaging results and LUS results
Lung ultrasonography will be performed within 6 hours of the Thoracic CT.
Time frame: 6 hours
Characteristics of lesions
İdentifying the characteristics of the abnormal findings detected in Thoracic CT and LUS
Time frame: 6 hours
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