Accuracy of Nurse-Performed Lung Ultrasound in Patients With Acute Dyspnea: A Prospective Observational Study.

In clinical practice lung ultrasound (LUS) is becoming an easy and reliable noninvasive tool for the evaluation of dyspnea. The aim of this study was to assess the accuracy of nurse-performed LUS, in particular, in the diagnosis of acute cardiogenic pulmonary congestion. We prospectively evaluated all the consecutive patients admitted for dyspnea in our Medicine Department between April and July 2014.

Accuracy of nurse-performed compression ultrasonography in the diagnosis of proximal symptomatic deep vein thrombosis: a prospective cohort study.

Background: Compression ultrasonography (CUS) has been recognized as the diagnostic procedure of choice for the investigation of patients with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT); the aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic accuracy of nurse-performed CUS for symptomatic proximal DVT of the lower limb.

Material And Methods: We prospectively evaluated all consecutive outpatients referred for suspected DVT from January 2011 to December 2012. All patients underwent bilateral proximal lower limb CUS, first by trained nurses and then by physicians expert in vascular ultrasonography, with every group blinded with respect to each other.

Diabetes mellitus associated with clomipramine treatment: a retrospective analysis.

In this retrospective analysis, we analyzed all clinical record data in our Medical Division between January 2005 and December 2006 to evaluate an association between clomipramine treatment and glucose intolerance. Of 1997 patients, 154 (7.7%) had diabetes and 525 (26.