Diagnostic assessment of acute respiratory distress syndrome with lung ultrasound – comparison with Computed Tomography- preliminary data

Objectives: Lung ultrasound (LUS) is increasingly used in intensive care medicine to monitor invasive ventilation, however little data exists on the comparison of common lung ultrasound (LUS) findings in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (“b-lines”, consolidations) with the imaging gold standard Computed Tomography (CT). Therefore the aim of our study was to examine these findings under controlled conditions at different Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) levels in healthy and diseased piglets and compare them with dynamic CT scans. Methods: After approval of the ethics comittee, 8 piglets were studied du…