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Diagnostic performance of multi-organ ultrasound with pocket-sized device in the management of acute dyspnea

Overview of attention for article published in Cardiovascular Ultrasound, June 2017
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Title
Diagnostic performance of multi-organ ultrasound with pocket-sized device in the management of acute dyspnea
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Cardiovascular Ultrasound, June 2017
DOI 10.1186/s12947-017-0105-8
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Alfonso Sforza, Costantino Mancusi, Maria Viviana Carlino, Agostino Buonauro, Marco Barozzi, Giuseppe Romano, Sossio Serra, Giovanni de Simone

Abstract

The availability of ultra-miniaturized pocket ultrasound devices (PUD) adds diagnostic power to the clinical examination. Information on accuracy of ultrasound with handheld units in immediate differential diagnosis in emergency department (ED) is poor. The aim of this study is to test the usefulness and accuracy of lung ultrasound (LUS) alone or combined with ultrasound of the heart and inferior vena cava (IVC) using a PUD for the differential diagnosis of acute dyspnea (AD). We included 68 patients presenting to the ED of "Maurizio Bufalini" Hospital in Cesena (Italy) for AD. All patients underwent integrated ultrasound examination (IUE) of lung-heart-IVC, using PUD. The series was divided into patients with dyspnea of cardiac or non-cardiac origin. We used 2 × 2 contingency tables to analyze sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value and negative predictive value of the three ultrasonic methods and their various combinations for the diagnosis of cardiogenic dyspnea (CD), comparing with the final diagnosis made by an independent emergency physician. LUS alone exhibited a good sensitivity (92.6%) and specificity (80.5%). The highest accuracy (90%) for the diagnosis of CD was obtained with the combination of LUS and one of the other two methods (heart or IVC). The IUE with PUD is a useful extension of the clinical examination, can be readily available at the bedside or in ambulance, requires few minutes and has a reliable diagnostic discriminant ability in the setting of AD.

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Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 8 16%
Student > Master 7 14%
Researcher 5 10%
Student > Postgraduate 4 8%
Student > Bachelor 3 6%
Other 6 12%
Unknown 16 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 29 59%
Computer Science 1 2%
Nursing and Health Professions 1 2%
Neuroscience 1 2%
Engineering 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 16 33%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 April 2018.
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