PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Nicholas Smallwood AU - Andrew Walden AU - Prashant Parulekar AU - Martin Dachsel TI - Should point-of-care ultrasound become part of healthcare worker testing for COVID? AID - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0442 DP - 2020 Jul 17 TA - Clinical Medicine PG - clinmed.2020-0442 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2020/07/17/clinmed.2020-0442.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2020/07/17/clinmed.2020-0442.full AB - 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.