IntroductionEarly identification of infants requiring surfactant therapy improves outcomes. We evaluated the accuracy delivery room lung ultrasound (LUS) to predict in very- and extremely preterm infants.MethodsInfants born at <320/7 weeks were prospectively enrolled 2 centres. LUS videos both sides chest obtained 5?10 min, 11?20 1?3 h after birth. Clinicians masked results assessment was provi...

Introduction Neonatal lung diseases are often a diagnostic dilemma for the clinician due to the low sensitivity and specificity of clinical signs and symptoms. In the last decade of the previous century the use of ultrasound in the diagnostic work-up of adult respiratory diseases became widely used [1,2]. The purpose of this paper is to update the knowledges on LUS in the most common neonatal r...

Introduction: Emergency department differentiation of pulmonary oedema from chronic obstructive airways disease causing acute breathlessness is inaccurate 25% of the time despite clinical acumen, clinician-reported chest x-ray and ECG. This research investigates whether a basic lung ultrasound protocol (LUS) could improve identification of pulmonary oedema in breathless elderly patients. Method...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains a challenge for any physician because its clinical presentation covers a broad spectrum and is often similar to other cardio-pulmonary disorders. PE is still under-diagnosed due to it’s various/atypical clinical presentations, the dynamic of embolic processes and due to the fact that we have several diagnostic methods without 100% sensitivity and specificity. Abo...

The Land Use Suitability (LUS) concept informs decision-making by stakeholders with information about the economic and environmental consequences of land use choices. LUS is composed three indicators describing inherent productive economichttps://mail.niwa.co.nz/owa/- _msocom_1 potential parcels (productive potential), contribution a parcel to lose contaminants relative other (relative contribu...

In this paper we present a novel approach to mapping FrameNet lexical units to WordNet synsets in order to automatically enrich the lexical unit set of a given frame. While the mapping approaches proposed in the past mainly rely on the semantic similarity between lexical units in a frame and lemmas in a synset, we exploit the definition of the lexical entries in FrameNet and the WordNet glosses...

The VOx/LUS-1 nanoporous silica synthesis and characterized by XRD, Nitrogen adsorption–desorption isotherms and UV-visible spectrophotometer. Direct oxidation of benzene to phenol in liquid phase by H2O2 peroxide were examined by using various (methanol, acetone, acetic acid, acetonitryl) solvents.

For many years the lung has been considered off-limits for ultrasound. However, it has been recently shown that lung ultrasound (LUS) may represent a useful tool for the evaluation of many pulmonary conditions in cardiovascular disease. The main application of LUS for the cardiologist is the assessment of B-lines. B-lines are reverberation artifacts, originating from water-thickened pulmonary i...

Results 36 patients were included. Among them, 13 (36 %) had grade 3 PGD. EVLWi was significantly higher in the grade 3 PGD group at ICU admission, day one and at day 2. A cut-off value of 14 ml/kg of EVLWi at admission predicts the progression to grade 3 PGD with a sensitivity of 82% and a specificity of 77% and was significantly associated with the need for rescue therapy for severe hypoxemia...

Background: Lung Ultrasound (LUS) has recently become an important method for diagnostic examination and monitoring of lung disease. Many diseases, such as respiratory distress syndrome (RDS), transient tachypnea the newborn (TTNB), pneumonia were diagnosed by chest X-ray, but can now easily be with LUS. LUS many advantages over X-ray including accuracy, reliability, low cost, radiation free, s...