title: Lung Ultrasound Will Soon Replace Chest Radiography in the Diagnosis of Acute Community-Acquired Pneumonia.
abstract: Acute community-acquired pneumonia should be diagnosed early to avoid most complications. The common diagnostic tools were represented by blood tests and chest X-ray with CT scan coming as a second-line exploration. The presence of air in the pulmonary parenchyma has long been thought of as not explorable by ultrasound. However, since the 1990s, several teams have described a semiology of ultrasonography of pulmonary diseases. Moreover, the safety of the technique and the development of mobile and ultra-portable devices have offered it as a first-line examination by a non-radiologist physician. The authors describe in this article ultrasonography as a way of learning the technique, and the main results observed in the literature. In conclusion, they propose it as the first-line examination instead of chest X-ray, and to reserve chest CT scan for complicated cases.
authors: Emergency, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department, Lourdes Hospital, 2 Avenue Alexandre Marqui, Lourdes, France. je.bourcier@gmail.com.
authors: Jean-Eudes
authors: JE
authors: Bourcier
authors: Emergency, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department, Lourdes Hospital, 2 Avenue Alexandre Marqui, Lourdes, France.
authors: Sergiu
authors: S
authors: Braga
authors: Emergency, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Department, Lourdes Hospital, 2 Avenue Alexandre Marqui, Lourdes, France.
authors: Didier
authors: D
authors: Garnier
keywords: Chest radiography; Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP); Lung ultrasound