Lung Ultrasound: A Tool Which Contributes in Making Critical Ultrasound a Holistic Discipline and Maybe a Philosophy

Abstract

Critical ultrasound is a bit more than a new tool – it is also a philosophy. Created from 1912 events (the sonar, born from the Titanic wreckage), adapted to the patient in the year 1950, adapted to the critically ill in the early 1990s, and becoming widely appreciated these recent years, lung ultrasound in the critically ill – LUCI – should first be considered through scientific appraisals: life savings, cost savings, and evidence-based medicine, which would definitely prove its value. It may also be considered a bit of a philosophy. The saved time, the spared irradiation, the increased comfort to the patient, and the comfort of the clinician facing critical situations, so to speak this kind of elegance used around the concept of point-of-care medicine, cannot be scientifically measured and are maybe as important.