Lung Ultrasound

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Alveolar air is a limitation to the propagation of the ultrasound beam in the thorax. The strong acoustic interface between the air content in the lung and the surrounding structures creates a mix of reverberations and reflections that stop the propagation of the ultrasound beam and prevent the reproduction of real anatomic images of the lung [ 1 ]. Thus, if we place the ultrasound probe on the chest wall of a patient with normally aerated lung, we only image artifacts. Nevertheless, in recent years lung ultrasound became highly impactful in diagnosing and monitoring the commonest respiratory diseases in critical care medicine. These new applications have been developed thanks to the discovery of the role of the ultrasound artifacts in the diagnosis and quantification of some lung diseases. Three main conditions of lung aeration are indicated by corresponding basic lung ultrasound signs.

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