Should point-of-care ultrasound become part of healthcare worker testing for COVID?
Nicholas Smallwood, Andrew Walden, Prashant Parulekar and Martin Dachsel
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7861/clinmed.2020-0442
Clin Med July 2020 Nicholas Smallwood
AEast Surrey Hospital, Redhill, UK;
Roles: consultant in acute medicine
Andrew Walden
BRoyal Berkshire Hospital, Reading, UK;
Roles: consultant in acute and intensive care medicine
Prashant Parulekar
CWilliam Harvey Hospital, Ashford, UK
Roles: consultant in acute and intensive care medicine
Martin Dachsel
AEast Surrey Hospital, Redhill, UK;
Roles: consultant in acute medicine
ABSTRACT
The NHS in England has rapidly expanded staff testing for COVID-19 in order to allow healthcare workers who would otherwise be isolating with symptoms suspicious of COVID-19 to be cleared to work. However, the high false negative rate associated with current RT-PCR tests could put other staff, family members and patients at risk. We believe combining swab testing with real-time lung ultrasound (LUS) would improve the ability to rule-in COVID-19 infection in those requiring screening.
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Should point-of-care ultrasound become part of healthcare worker testing for COVID?
Nicholas Smallwood, Andrew Walden, Prashant Parulekar, Martin Dachsel
Clinical Medicine Jul 2020, clinmed.2020-0442; DOI: 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0442
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