Lung Ultrasound: The Essentials

Lung Ultrasound

Ultrasound (US) has been excluded from assessment of lung pathology for many decades. In fact, the acoustic characteristics of thoracic structures make them unsuitable for morphological US imaging in most cases. Bone and air are notorious “enemies” of US as they prevent their penetration thus obscuring deeper structures. Lung ultrasound relies on interpretation of many different artifacts and p...

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The Essentials of Psychosynthesis

"Myth is the mode of simultaneous awareness of a complex group of causes and effects. Electric circuitry confers a mythic dimension on our ordinary individual and group actions. Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single separate planes." (ibid, p. 114) "The fragmenting of activities, our habit of thinking in bits and parts—"specialism"—re...

Advances in lung ultrasound

Ultrasound examination of the chest has advanced in recent decades. This imaging modality is currently used to diagnose several pathological conditions and provides qualitative and quantitative information. Acoustic barriers represented by the aerated lungs and the bony framework of the chest generate well-described sonographic artifacts that can be used as diagnostic aids. The normal pleural l...

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