Lung Ultrasound for Acute Dyspnea in Emergency Department

Inclusion Criteria

• •Patients had to present to the ED with a principal complaint of shortness of breath, defined as either the sudden onset of dyspnea with no history of chronic dyspnea or an increase in the severity of chronic dyspnea in the last 48 hours;
• •Presence of an emergency physician with lung US experience at the time of enrollment;
• •US examination within 30 minutes after the start of the clinical evaluation.