Sulagna Basu, Rishiraj Narayan Verma, Aditya Joshi, Deepak Dwivedi, Mohammad Abdul Mateen, Jagdeep Singh Bhatia
BACKGROUND: Lung ultrasound (LUS) is a known imaging modality employed for monitoring patients in an intensive care unit. This study evaluates, LUS in assessing disease severity and prognosis, by correlating its score with the three commonly used clinical severity scoring systems (CSSS), namely, sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) score, acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II score, and simplified acute physiology score (SAPS) II. METHODS: This single-center prospective observational study included 54 adult patients of primary lung disease-induced acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), on invasive ventilation...
2023: International Journal of Critical Illness and Injury Science