Emerging applications of clinical ultrasonography

C Henríquez-Camacho; F Miralles-Aguiar; M Bernabeu-Wittel

doi:10.1016/j.rce.2020.01.013

Emerging applications of clinical ultrasonography

Rev Clin Esp. 2021 Jan;221(1):45-54. doi: 10.1016/j.rce.2020.01.013. Epub 2020 Jul 10.

[Article in English, Spanish]

Authors

C Henríquez-Camacho¹, F Miralles-Aguiar², M Bernabeu-Wittel³

Affiliations

¹ Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Españan.
² Unidad Clínica de Anestesiología y Reanimación, Hospital Universitario Puerta del Mar, Cádiz, España.
³ Unidad Clínica de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, España. Electronic address: wittel@cica.es.

PMID: 32654759
DOI: 10.1016/j.rce.2020.01.013

Abstract

In this work, we introduce the numerous emerging areas and frontiers in the use of point-of-care ultrasonography. Of these, we review the following three: 1) the use of clinical ultrasonography in infectious and tropical diseases (we address its usefulness in the diagnosis and follow-up of the main syndromes, in tropical diseases, and in areas with scarce resources); 2) the usefulness of clinical ultrasonography in the assessment of response to volume infusion in severely ill patients (we review basic concepts and the main static and dynamic variables used for this evaluation); and 3) the use of clinical ultrasonography in the assessment of muscle mass in elderly patients with primary sarcopenia (we review the main muscles and measurements used for it).

Keywords: Clinical ultrasonography; Ecografía clínica; Enfermedades infecciosas; Enfermedades tropicales; Fluid responsiveness in shock; IVT; Infectious diseases; Intravenous therapy; POCUS; Respuesta a fluidos en el shock; Sarcopenia; Sarcopenia.; Shock; Tropical diseases.