This page gives an overview of title, presenter and abstract of all the poster presentations in the Poster Session 2 of the 2021 edition of the Point of Care Ultrasound conference. During this session five posters will be presented covering a broad spectrum of Point of Care Ultrasound topics.
Continue reading “Poster Session 2, 2021 edition”Differentiating cardiogenic from non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema: Is lung ultrasound the holy grail?
presentation by Invited speaker Pieter Roel Tuinman, MD, PhD, Amsterdam UMC.
Differentiating cardiogenic from non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema in critically ill patients is notoriously difficult. Lung ultrasound is an excellent tool to diagnose pulmonary edema, but can it also differentiate between those two clinical entities? Using both basic and some more advanced ultrasound signs, lung ultrasound has the potential to become the gold standard for diagnosing the cause of pulmonary edema in critically ill patients.
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