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Although Chest X-Ray (CRX) has been holding on a key role in critical patient cardiopulmonary assessment for decades and skilled radiologists are still able to supply important information from CRX, many interfering factors are leading the technique on the fringe of ICU routine practice. Image quality, delay between execution and image or report availability, and interpretative doubtful points and inaccessible areas are conditions that could be readily avoided by wider and wider ultrasound system use. Even though it is an easy method, chest ultrasonography still needs basic ultrasound knowledge acquisition about both the way of getting images and their interpretation. In addition, a long training is necessary and this could be achieved only by having at one’s disposal an ultrasound system and at least a convex probe.
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Resta, M.V., Niro, D. (2014). Chest X-Ray in ICU: An Examination in Which There is Too Much Confidence. Possible Alternatives. In: Allaria, B. (eds) Practical Issues in Anesthesia and Intensive Care 2013. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5529-2_7
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