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 Sep 01 TA - Clinical Medicine PG - 486--487 VI - 20 IP - 5 4099 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/5/486.short 4100 - http://www.rcpjournals.org/content/20/5/486.full SO - Clin Med2020 Sep 01; 20 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.