Lung Ultrasonography in COVID-19 Pneumonia

Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Education and Research Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lung Ultrasound; Covid19; Pneumonia

Treatments: Device: lung ultrasonography

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04719234

2011-KAEK-25 2020/5-21

Details and patient eligibility

About

Lung ultrasonography has been used for diagnosis and treatment in many departments including intensive care before the pandemic. The gold standard method for the diagnosis of pneumonia is still chest tomography. Ultrasonography, which has advantages over tomography, has also been tried to be used in covid 19 pneumonia.

Full description

In this study, it was aimed to investigate the efficiency of lung ultrasonography in diagnosis of covid 19 pneumonia.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 85 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18 and 85 years old
• Hospitalized in intensive care unit
• PCR tested
• Thoracic CT applied

Exclusion criteria

• Previous lung and thoracic wall surgery
• Anatomically with thoracic wall disorder
• Patients who did not consent to participate in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 1 patient group

lung ultrasound

Other group

Description:

lung ultrasonography protocol will be applied.

Treatment:

Device: lung ultrasonography