Lung Ultrasound, Pneumonia, Covid19
Conditions
Brief summary
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.
Detailed description
In this study, it was aimed to investigate the efficiency of lung ultrasonography in diagnosis of covid 19 pneumonia.
Interventions
DEVICElung ultrasonography
Application of 12 zone lung ultrasonography protocol using the konvex ultrasound probe (2-6 MHz)
Sponsors
Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital
Study design
Allocation
NA
Intervention model
SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose
DIAGNOSTIC
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* 18 and 85 years old * Hospitalized in intensive care unit * PCR tested * Thoracic CT applied
Exclusion criteria
* Previous lung and thoracic wall surgery * Anatomically with thoracic wall disorder * Patients who did not consent to participate in the study
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Relationship between Thoracic CT imaging results and LUS results | 6 hours | Lung ultrasonography will be performed within 6 hours of the Thoracic CT. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Characteristics of lesions | 6 hours | İdentifying the characteristics of the abnormal findings detected in Thoracic CT and LUS |
Other
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| the relation of the lesions with the pleura | 6 hours | the relation of the lesions with the pleura, and their distance to the pleura. |
Countries
Turkey (Türkiye)
Outcome results
None listed