Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill The BLUE Protocol
Written by a pioneer in critical care ultrasound, this book discusses the basic technique and “signatures” of lung ultrasound and explains its main clinical applications. The tools and clinical uses of the BLUE protocol, which allows diagnosis of most cas
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Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill The BLUE Protocol
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Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill
Daniel A. Lichtenstein
Lung Ultrasound in the Critically Ill The BLUE Protocol
Daniel A. Lichtenstein Hôpital Ambroise Paré Service de Réanimation Médicale Boulogne (Paris-West University) France
ISBN 978-3-319-15370-4 ISBN 978-3-319-15371-1 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-15371-1
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“The lung: a major hindrance for the use of ultrasound at the thoracic level.” TR Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine, 1992, p. 1043
“Ultrasound imaging: not useful for evaluation of the pulmonary parenchyma.” TR Harrison Principles of Internal Medicine, 2011, p. 2098
“Most of the essential ideas in sciences are fundamentally simple and can, in general, be explained in a language which can be understood by everybody.” Albert Einstein The evolution of physics, 1937
“Le poumon…, vous dis-je !” (The lung… I tell you!) Molière, 1637 (continued)
These extracts were introducing the Chapter on lung ultrasound of our 2005 Edition.
The present textbook is fully devoted to this application.
A ma famille, mes enfants, le temps que je leur ai consacré était en concurrence avec ces livres qui ont aussi été ma vie. Trouver l’équilibre entre une vie de famille idéale et la productivité scientifique a été un défi permanent. Les défauts qu’on pourra trouver dans le présent ouvrage ne seront dûs qu’à une faiblesse dans la délicate gestion de cet équilibre. Mon père n’aurait pas cru, en 1992, époque de la première édition, qu’il verrait celle-ci; cet ouvrage lui est dédié. Ma mère sera heureuse de voir d’en haut cet achèvement d’une vie. A Joëlle
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