Triage patients with suspected pulmonary embolism in the emergency department using a portable ultrasound device

N Mansencal, A Vieillard‐Baron, A Beauchet… - …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) is difficult, … a portable ultrasound device for triage
of patients with suspected … studied 103 consecutive patients with suspected PE, referred to …

Thoracic ultrasound for diagnosing pulmonary embolism: a prospective multicenter study of 352 patients

G Mathis, W Blank, A Reißig, P Lechleitner, J Reuß… - Chest, 2005 - Elsevier
equipment, competence, and manpower for ultrasoundsuspicion of PE under consideration
of the risk factors. Symptoms and risk factors were documented. As every clinical suspicion

Diagnostic accuracy of focused deep venous, lung, cardiac and multiorgan ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism: a systematic review and meta-analysis

C Falster, N Jacobsen, KE Coman, M Højlund, TA Gaist… - Thorax, 2022 - thorax.bmj.com
… . Brief cardiovascular imaging with pocket-size ultrasound devices improves the accuracy
of the initial assessment of suspected pulmonary embolism. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging 2018;34:…

Ultrasound assessment of pulmonary embolism in patients receiving CT pulmonary angiography

S Koenig, S Chandra, A Alaverdian, C Dibello… - Chest, 2014 - Elsevier
… using a Sonosite M-Turbo ultrasound machine (Fujifilm Sonosite Inc) … pulmonary angiography
vs ventilation-perfusion lung scanning in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

Diagnostic accuracy of focused cardiac and venous ultrasound examinations in patients with shock and suspected pulmonary embolism

P Nazerian, G Volpicelli, C Gigli, A Lamorte… - Internal and emergency …, 2018 - Springer
… In recent years ultrasound technology has rapidly improved, giving the possibility of … devices.
This technical improvement is associated with a widespread use of point-of-care ultrasound

Utility of an integrated clinical, echocardiographic, and venous ultrasonographic approach for triage of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

S Grifoni, I Olivotto, P Cecchini, F Pieralli… - The American journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier
… The potential role of ultrasound techniques in diagnosing acute pulmonary … formed within
1 to 3 hours of initial clinical evalutation using a Toshiba SSA 270A equipment with 5- and 7.5-…

Accuracy of point-of-care multiorgan ultrasonography for the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

P Nazerian, S Vanni, G Volpicelli, C Gigli, M Zanobetti… - Chest, 2014 - Elsevier
ultrasound with focus in cardiac, vein, and lung point-of-care examination. The following
multiprobe machines … for patients with suspected pulmonary embolism that could be tested in …

Point-of-care ultrasound in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism

A Squizzato, L Galli, VEA Gerdes - Critical ultrasound journal, 2015 - Springer
… The best diagnostic strategy to confirm or exclude pulmonary embolism (PE) suspicion
Concomitantly, the quality improvement of ultrasound equipment, with increasingly compact …

Diagnostic performance of wells score combined with point‐of‐care lung and venous ultrasound in suspected pulmonary embolism

…, S Vanni, Ultrasound Wells Study Group - Academic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
… Moreover, with the advent of portable machines, ultrasound is exponentially used by the
clinical care teams in the early evaluation of patients presenting with dyspnea, chest pain, …

Brief cardiovascular imaging with pocket-size ultrasound devices improves the accuracy of the initial assessment of suspected pulmonary embolism

D Filipiak-Strzecka, JD Kasprzak, P Lipiec - The international journal of …, 2018 - Springer
… to miniaturize echocardiographic devices has led to the creation of pocket-size imaging devices
(… We hypothesized, that in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism augmentation of …