COVID Mini: Lung Ultrasound
Diagnose COVID-19 with point-of-care ultrasound. Learn to detect COVID-19 using lung ultrasound and differentiate it from other pathologies.
1 CME credits
By now we’re all intimately familiar with the new coronavirus which has spread across six continents infecting millions of people and killing hundreds of thousands.
In this Clinical Guide we hope to equip you with a basic understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the COVID-19 infection, and its prognosis. Sound good? Then scroll down to see a list of our articles below.
In these articles, we'll introduce you to the pathogen that causes COVID-19, the SARS-CoV-2 virus. We'll review its basic structure, how it infects cells, and how we can use this information to target potential therapies. We’ll then outline the most common symptoms associated with the disease both in hospitalized patients and those in the community. We review the clinical characteristics that increase a patient’s risk of getting severely ill or dying from COVID-19, and how the disease can progress week by week, from the initial onset of symptoms to hospitalization, recovery, or death. Lastly, COVID-19 is classified as a respiratory illness but we know it can also affect other organ systems. So, we’ll look at some of the non-respiratory complications associated with infection in hopes of helping you quickly recognize and manage these potential complications in very sick patients. By identifying and immediately isolating potentially infective patients you’ll be in a position to help minimize the spread of the virus and help contain the pandemic.
In the articles in this chapter, we summarize the experiences of our special guest Radiologist Osamah Alwalid, a radiologist based in Wuhan, China who uses CT scans to diagnose patients with COVID-19. He and his colleagues were among the first to describe these very characteristic findings in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, so we're pretty excited to be able to share his experiences with you!
If you're looking for a simple video-based explanation of the essential concepts in this COVID-19 Clinical Guide, sign up for a free trial membership to get access to our online COVID-19 Mini: The Disease course and other COVID-19-related course content:Â
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