title: The significance and the necessity of routinely performing lung ultrasound in the neonatal intensive care units.
abstract: Various lung diseases are the most common conditions and the leading cause of hospital admission and death in newborns. Historically, the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of lung diseases primarily relied on conventional chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) scans, however, chest X-ray and CT scans suffer from obvious limitations, while lung ultrasound has many kinds of advantages for the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of lung diseases. The significance and the necessity of lung ultrasound in the diagnosis of neonatal lung diseases will be introduced in this paper.
authors: a Department of Neonatology and NICU of Bayi Children's Hospital , The Army General Hospital of the Chinese PLA , Beijing , China .
authors: Jing
authors: J
authors: Liu
authors: b Department of Ultrasound , GE Health Care in China , Beijing , China , and.
authors: Hai-Ying
authors: HY
authors: Cao
authors: c Deparement of Information , The Army General Hospital of the Chinese PLA , Beijing , China.
authors: Xin-Ling
authors: XL
authors: Wang
authors: a Department of Neonatology and NICU of Bayi Children's Hospital , The Army General Hospital of the Chinese PLA , Beijing , China .
authors: Li-Jun
authors: LJ
authors: Xiao
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D007363:Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001261:Pulmonary Atelectasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography; D015300:Ventilator Weaning / Q000379:methods
keywords: Lung diseases; lung ultrasound; neonatal intensive care unit; neonates