Lung Ultrasound: Its Findings and New Applications in Neonatology and Pediatric Diseases

Lung Ultrasound: Its Findings and New Applications in Neonatology and Pediatric Diseases

Raffaella Nenna, Fabio Midulla, Elio Iovine, Silvia Bloise, Domenico Paolo La Regina, Daniela Pepino, Laura Petrarca, Antonella Frassanito, Riccardo Lubrano

Lung ultrasound has become increasingly used in both adult and pediatric populations, allowing the rapid evaluation of many lung and pleura diseases. This popularity is due to several advantages of the method such as the low cost, rapidity, lack of ionizing radiation, availability of bedside and repeatability of the method. These features are even more important after the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, given the possibility of recognizing through ultrasound the signs of interstitial lung syndrome typical of pneumonia caused by the virus. The purpose of this paper is to review the available evidence of lung ultrasound (LUS) in children and its main applications in pediatric diseases.

2021

Children, covid-19, pneumonia, infants, lung ultrasound, Bronchiolitis

10.3390/diagnostics11040652

Epidemiology and Health

Korean Society of Epidemiology

Medicine (General)