Nevertheless, a meticulous clinical exam remains a cornerstone in clinical practice. Quite often clear-cut findings may provide valuable diagnostic information. Furthermore, history taking and painstaking physical examination foster the confidence between patients and physicians, which is urgently needed in ...
Internal Medicine house staff is able to obtain skills to perform lung ultrasonography to augment their physical exam findings, this can lead to higher diagnostic accuracy without the need for ancillary testing.DISCLOSURE: The following authors have nothing to disclose: Patricia Centron, Marcos Hernandez...
The Vet BLUE Lung Scan(肺旁快速超声) The Vet BLUE(beside lung ultrasound exam) Lung Scan Gregory R. Lisciandro 前言 兽医vet-blue扫查,因紫绀(呼吸窘迫)的“BLUE”和床边肺超声检查的“BLUE”(Lichtenstein 2008)而被称为“BLUE”,是一种新的肺超...
Patients with a personal or family history of collagen vascular disease who present with salient physical exam findings or symptomatology should consult with a rheumatologist and/or pulmonologist to be evaluated for collagen vascular disease-associated interstitial lung disease, which may include a physical...
(e.g., breast orabdominal masses, enlarged lymph nodes). Rarely, a metastasis can affect the larger central airways, producing localizedwheezing, which an astute clinician discovers onauscultation. Malignant pleural fluid accumulation produces the physical findings of reduced breath sounds, a dull ...
physical exam or chest radiography.4,5 CURRENT NEONATAL LUS LITERATURE Current neonatal lung literature describes the normal and abnormal LUS imaging based on the several principles described by Lichteinstein and Mauriat.6 There are few articles that summarize neonatal findings, encourage LUS use and ...
The causes of lung inflammation are many and require no less than a physical exam (including a check of breath sounds) and a review of your medical and family. Based on the findings, other tests and procedures may be ordered. These include lab tests like:2 ...
Findings of physical exam are unremarkable. Not surprisingly, the patient's range of motion in his left hip is significantly decreased, but there are also coarse breath sounds in both lungs. A chest x-ray shows diffuse reticular and interstitial opacities prominent in the lung bases -- finding...
diagnosis and focused examination of other structures if needed) and finally ending with a medical decision making in light of the patient’s history, physical exam findings, lab and radiological data [28]. It is also essential to store the acquired images and report LUS findings for follow-up...
Treatment decisions for IV antibiotics were made by a clinic physician based on symptoms, physical exam findings, and objective measures (decrease in lung function, chest x-ray changes and/or recent weight loss) consistent with the most frequently used definition of pulmonary exacerbations in ...