Advantages of lung ultrasound in triage, diagnosis and monitoring COVID-19 patients: review

Abstract Over the last decades, especially during COVID-19 pandemic period, lung ultrasound (LUS) gained interest due to multiple advantages: radiation-free, repeatable, cost-effective, portable devices with a bedside approach. These advantages can help clinicians in triage, positive diagnostic, stratification of disease forms according severity and prognosis, evaluation mechanically ventilated patients from Intensive Care Units, as well monitoring progress lesions, thus reducing health care contamination. LUS should be performed by standard protocol examination. The characteristic lesions pneumonia are abolished sliding, presence coalescent B-lines, disruption thickening pleural line subpleural consolidations. is useful method for post-COVID-19 evaluation, highlight remaining fibrotic some moderate or severe pneumonia.