Lung Ultrasound, Part 2

This Harvard Medical School Continuing Education video examines these key questions about point-of-care lung ultrasound: what basic artifacts can be seen at the solid-air interface, and how do you obtain views of the lung across all eight lung zones?

Associate Residency Program Director of Point-of-Care Ultrasound at Massachusetts General Hospital, Dan Restrepo, MD, FHM, reviews artifacts that can be seen on healthy lung ultrasounds, including A-lines and lung comets, and explains how probe position relates to artifact creation. Dr. Restrepo identifies the lung zones important to successful lung ultrasound scanning.

This video was peer reviewed by Dr. Jonathan Salik, TMD, MHPEd, Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Dr. Sugantha Sundar, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, to validate the quality and accuracy of the content. It was edited by affiliate physicians of Harvard Medical School, Avanthi Raghavan, MD Cardiology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital and Anna Handorf, MD, Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital.

00:00 | Introduction
00:34 | Artifacts in the healthy lung
01:40 | The “BAT” sign and lung sliding
03:38 | Reverberation artifact and A-lines
06:25 | Lung zones and ultrasound probe placement

This video was peer reviewed by Dr. Jonathan Salik, TMD, MHPEd, Instructor of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital; and Dr. Sugantha Sundar, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesia, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, to validate the quality and accuracy of the content. It was edited by affiliate physicians of Harvard Medical School, Avanthi Raghavan, MD Cardiology Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Anna Handorf, MD, Research Fellow in Pediatrics, Massachusetts General Hospital.

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