RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Should point-of-care ultrasound become part of healthcare worker testing for COVID?
JF Clinical Medicine
JO Clin Med
FD Royal College of Physicians
SP clinmed.2020-0442
DO 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0442
A1 Nicholas Smallwood
A1 Andrew Walden
A1 Prashant Parulekar
A1 Martin Dachsel
YR 2020
UL http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/early/2020/07/17/clinmed.2020-0442.abstract
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.