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General Internal Medicine • Pulmonology • Critical Care • Hospital Medicine • Point-of-care Ultrasound • General Hospital Medicine
How do you recommend incorporating B-lines on lung POCUS as part of evaluating a patient's volume status?
In particular, how do you reconcile situations where lung POCUS findings contradict other components of volume assessment (e.g. JVD, peripheral edema, labs, chest X-ray, etc.)?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Great question! As you allude to in your question, it is important to address this problem holistically in the context of the patient's history, exam, labs, and other imaging. I find that this happens all of the time, and here is how I typically break them down when applying lung ultrasoun...
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