LUNG ULTRASOUND IN THE CRITICALLY ILL. THE BLUE PROTOCOL

DESCRIPTION

Writtenby a pioneer in critical care ultrasound, this book discusses the basictechnique and signatures of lung ultrasound and explains its main clinicalapplications. The tools and clinical uses of the BLUE prool,which allows diagnosis of most cases of acute respiratory failure, are firstdescribed in detail. Careful attention is then devoted to proolsderived from the BLUE prool the FALLSprool for diagnosis and management of acutecirculatory failure, the Pink prool for use in ARDS, and the SESAME prool foruse in cardiac arrest and to the LUCI-FLR program,a means of answering clinical questions while reducing radiation exposure. Finally,the book discusses all the possible settings in which lung ultrasound can beused, discipline by discipline and condition by condition. Lung Ultrasound inthe Critically Ill comprehensively explains how ultrasound can become thestethoscope of modern medicine. It is a superb complement to the authorsprevious book, Whole Body Ultrasonography in theCritically Ill.

CONTENTS

Thetools of the BLUE-prool: Basic notions: theindispensable.- . Which unit.-Which probe.- Specific notions.- The seven principles of L.U.C.I..- The BLUE-points.- The 10 signatures at aglance.- The pleural line.- The A-profile and the A-line.- The A-profile andlung sliding.- The B-line.- Interstitial syndrome and lung rockets.- TheB-profile, the B-profile.- The A-profile and pneumothorax.-PLAPS.- PLAPS and pleuraleffusion.- PLAPS and lung consolidation. TheC-profile.- BLUE-DVT. Deepvenous thrombosis in the BLUE-prool.-Simple emergency cardiac sonography.- The BLUE-prool in clinical use: Basic principle of the BLUE-prool. The 8 profiles. The data.-Excluded patients of the BLUE-prool.- Frequentlyasked questions on the BLUE-prool.- The BLUE-prool and pneumonia.-The BLUE-prooland acute hemodynamic pulmonary edema.- The BLUE-prool, asthma and COPD.- TheBLUE-prool and pulmonary embolism.-The BLUE-prool and pneumothorax.-The mainproducts derived from the BLUE-prool: Pink-prool (lung ultrasound in ARDS).-The LUCI-FLR project (decrease of medicalirradiation).- FALLS-prool (heart, lung, venousultrasound in management of acute circulatory failure).-SESAME-prool (ultrasound in cardiac arrest).-Extension of lungultrasound to specific disciplines, wider settings, various considerations:Lung ultrasound in the neonate.-All specialties involved in lung ultrasound.- Criticalultrasound, lung, heart and DVT apart.-The ExtendedBLUE-prool.-Non critical ultrasound.-Variousconsiderations.- How to learn the BLUE-prool.-Holistic ultrasound, a new definition - how it can impact critical medicine.- Lung artifacts from A to Z.