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What are some practical ways to incorporate cardiac POCUS in the primary care setting?

For example, do you find it most useful for outpatient disease assessment/management, consideration of further imaging or specialist referral, or tria...

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How do you decide the maximum amount of volume to remove during a therapeutic thoracentesis?

Do you use the traditional strict limit of 1.5 L, or do you consider removing more volume if a patient appears to tolerate it?

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What do you think about using conventional thoracic imaging methods (e.g., X-ray, CT, etc.) to determine if a pleural effusion is of adequate size to consider thoracentesis?

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How do you decide whether to use lung POCUS versus CT as the next step when a chest X-ray is equivocal for pneumonia?

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How do you determine whether to limit volume removal during therapeutic paracentesis in a patient without acute or chronic kidney disease?

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Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR, 2024 Jun

ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Workup of Pleural Effusion or Pleural Disease.

AJR. American journal of roentgenology, 2010-02

Differentiation of pleural effusions from parenchymal opacities: accuracy of bedside chest radiography.

Heart failure reviews, 2021 Apr 09

Lung ultrasound-guided management to reduce hospitalization in chronic heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

International journal of cardiology, 2017 Aug 01

Pulmonary congestion evaluated by lung ultrasound predicts decompensation in heart failure outpatients.

Cardiovascular ultrasound, 2006 Aug 31

Evaluation of ultrasound lung comets by hand-held echocardiography.

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