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The LUCI-FLR Project: Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill – A Bedside Alternative to Irradiating Techniques, Radiographs and CT

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The most severely ill patients are the ones who can benefit less from CT or MRI. Critical ultrasound and lung ultrasound neatly solve this weird paradox while limiting medical radiations.

The target of the LUCI-FLR project is to decrease in the three next decades bedside radiographies by 1/3 and urgent CT by 2/3.

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Lichtenstein, D.A. (2016). The LUCI-FLR Project: Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill – A Bedside Alternative to Irradiating Techniques, Radiographs and CT. In: Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15371-1_29

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