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Authors

 

Miroslav Mišović¹, Tijana Kosanović^2
1 Institut za radiologiju, Vojnomedicinska akademija, Beograd
² Opšta bolnica, Pančevo

 

• The paper was received on 12.11.2015. / Accepted on 18.11.2015.

 

Abstract

 

Before, it was thought that the air was the enemy of the ultrasound waves and that the lungs are unaccesible for the ultrasound examination. Reason for all is presence of the air in the lungs or in pleural space, which prevent diffusion of ultrasound waves and resulting in artefacts unabling appearance of the ultrasound picture. Today, yust owing to our knowledge and adeqate explanation of these arefacts, we can quicly, simply and great precise make a diagnosis of the pneumothorax. The ultrasound has shown numerous advances in comparison with other diagnostic methods (CXR, MDCT), especially in urgent conditions, in polytraumatized patients, in those who are in severe general condition and in unstable patients in the intensive care units, in whom urgent diadnosis is of great importance. Because of all this FAST protocol is extended with examination of the thorax (lungs), so that E- FAST protocol is now applied.

 

 

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