Suggested Lung Exercises

 

Suggested Reading Pathway

Choose 1:

Point-of-Care Ultrasound book, Lung material, pgs. 49-81.

Philips has a chapter on lung ultrasound on an e-book. Requires Adobe Flash Player 10.

Introduction to bedside ultrasound. This is a free ibook that can be obtained from itunes for Appple users (found here).

Basic Review

Jacob Avila's 5 min sono website has several brief, excellent videos that cover the lung examination.

Video 1, Technical Perfomance of lung examination, Estimated time: 9 min

Video 2, B-lines, Estimated time: 6 min

Video 3, Pleural Effusion, Estimated time: 6 min

Video 4, Pneumonia, Estimated time: 5 min

Video 5, Pneumothorax, Estimated time: 5 min

Deeper Dive

The Ultrasound Podcast guys' fantastic lecture series about lung ultrasound. Well worth a slightly deeper dive.

Video 1, Estimated time: 30 min

Video 2, Estimated time: 25 min

Suggested Video Pathway

Websites

Abbott NW lung material is found here.

BLUE Protocol

The Blue Protocol shows how (figure 8 only!) to see how you can utilize the information you obtain from lung ultrasound to help formulate your thinking.

Estimated time: 3 min

CLUE Protocol

After the completion of the Cardiac Modules, you should understand how lung ultrasound fits into the CLUE protocol. Included here are the steps included in the CLUE protocol.