Self-Performed Lung Ultrasound for Home Monitoring of a Patient Positive for Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Emanuele Pivetta¹, Erin Girard², Francesca Locascio³, Enrico Lupia⁴, John D Martin², Mike Stone⁵

¹Division of Emergency Medicine and High Dependency Unit, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy. Electronic address: emanuele.pivetta@gmail.com.

²Butterfly Network Inc., Guilford, CT.

³Department of Emergency Medicine, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy.

⁴Division of Emergency Medicine and High Dependency Unit, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza di Torino, Turin, Italy.

⁵Northwest Acute Care Specialists, Portland, OR.

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Abstract

A subset of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and lung involvement pose a disposition challenge, particularly when hospital resources are constrained. Those not in respiratory failure are sent home, often with phone monitoring and/or respiratory rate and oxygen saturation monitoring. Hypoxemia may be a late presentation and is often preceded by abnormal lung findings on ultrasound.…

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