Emergency medicine Australasia : EMA
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Emerg Med Australas · Feb 2020
Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter StudyImplementation study reporting diagnostic accuracy, outcomes and costs in a multicentre randomised controlled trial of non-expert lung ultrasound to detect pulmonary oedema.
Lung ultrasound experts claim that 'B line' artefacts herald pulmonary oedema, but links between early recognition and improved outcome are unconfirmed, particularly for non-expert clinicians. ⋯ Non-expert LUS augmenting dyspnoea workup may improve diagnostic accuracy, but did not significantly alter costs or outcomes in the ED or the hospital.