title: [Value of lung ultrasound in emergency and intensive care medicine].
abstract: Lung ultrasound has traditionally been limited to evaluation of pleural effusion and as guidance for thoracocentesis. However, in recent years, thoracic ultrasound became an increasingly valuable diagnostic tool in emergency and intensive care medicine. The relative easy use of bedside examination made chest ultrasonography diagnostic valuable additional tool to be used in any clinical acute context. Various pulmonary diseases like pleural effusion, pulmonary-venous congestion und edema, pneumonia and pneumothorax can be detected very fast under emergency conditions.
authors.affiliation: Klinik III für Innere Medizin, Herzzentrum der Uniklinik Köln.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Michels
authors.affiliation: Zentrale Notaufnahme, Klinikum Frankfurt am Main (Höchst).
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Breitkreutz
authors.affiliation: Klinik III für Innere Medizin, Herzzentrum der Uniklinik Köln.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pfister
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital; D006801:Humans; D007090:Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017563:Lung Diseases, Interstitial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D010996:Pleural Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests; D011654:Pulmonary Edema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography