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- In acute cardiac care, clinicians often face challenges in diagnosing patients with symptoms like dyspnea, chest pain, shock, and cardiac arrest.
- Lung ultrasonography is an effective diagnostic tool that can help streamline decision-making during initial patient assessments.
- By using this technology, healthcare providers can more accurately identify whether issues are cardiac or non-cardiac, enhancing the management of urgent cardiovascular situations.
Article Abstract
In the acute cardiac care setting, undifferentiated clinical presentations such as dyspnea, chest pain, shock, and cardiac arrest are common diagnostic challenges for the clinician. Lung ultrasonography is a well-established diagnostic tool which can be integrated in simplified decision making algorithms during the initial approach of the patient, in order to differentiate accurately cardiac from non-cardiac causes and improve the management of time-sensitive cardiovascular emergencies.
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