TY - JOUR T1 - Should point-of-care ultrasound become part of healthcare worker testing for COVID? JF - Clinical Medicine JO - Clin Med SP - 486 LP - 487 DO - 10.7861/clinmed.2020-0442 VL - 20 IS - 5 AU - Nicholas Smallwood AU - Andrew Walden AU - Prashant Parulekar AU - Martin Dachsel Y1 - 2020/09/01 UR - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/5/486.abstract N2 - 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. ER -