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  • Lung ultrasound has had a great development in the critical patient management in the last decade it is a safe, non-invasive and radiation-free tool that allows examining the patient at the bedside without the need for transfer The last characteristic is particularly beneficial in patients with hypoxemia, hemody-namic instability and with high-risk of nosocomial contamination, as currently occurs in the pandemic caused by the outbreak of the new coronavirus 2019 disease (COviD-19) Lung ultrasound can be used to assess lung aeration in the patient under mechanical ventilation, evaluating the response to different strategies, personalizing lung recruitment maneuvers, and guiding the weaning process This review describes the basic principles of lung ultrasound to obtain the images and interpret them Lung ultrasound provides anesthesiologists, intensivists and respiratory therapists a safe and reliable tool for the diagnosis and follow-up of the main pulmonary diseases in the critical ill patient © 2020 Sociedad de Anestesiologia de Chile All rights reserved
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  • Revista_Chilena_de_Anestesia
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  • WHO
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  • Lung ultrasound in critical care. clinical application
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  • 2020

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