Detection of Pneumothorax in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome-Lung Ultrasound Pitfalls

Konrad Mendrala; Sylweriusz Kosiński; Tomasz Czober; Paweł Podsiadło; Szymon Skoczyński; Tomasz Darocha

doi:10.3390/diagnostics14020206

Detection of Pneumothorax in Severe Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome-Lung Ultrasound Pitfalls

Diagnostics (Basel). 2024 Jan 18;14(2):206. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics14020206.

Authors

Konrad Mendrala¹, Sylweriusz Kosiński², Tomasz Czober¹, Paweł Podsiadło³, Szymon Skoczyński⁴, Tomasz Darocha¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Medical University of Silesia, 40-055 Katowice, Poland.
² Department of Intensive Interdisciplinary Therapy, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum, 31-008 Krakow, Poland.
³ Department of Emergency Medicine, Jan Kochanowski University, 25-369 Kielce, Poland.
⁴ Department of Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis, Faculty of Medical Sciences in Zabrze, Medical University of Silesia in Katowice, 40-055 Katowice, Poland.

Abstract

Lung ultrasound is gaining popularity as a quick, easy, and accurate method for the detection of pneumothorax. The typical sonographic features of pneumothorax are the absence of lung sliding, the presence of a lung point, the absence of a lung pulse, and the absence of B-lines. However, we found that in some cases, each of these elements might be misleading.

Keywords: ARDS; lung ultrasound; pneumothorax.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.