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Diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound for pulmonary tuberculosis in out-patients from Papua New Guinea, a resource-limited setting

Lightowler M, Min J, Nape A, Galowa T, Hemo C,  et al.
2025-11-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases
2025-11-01 • International Journal of Infectious Diseases

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To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of lung ultrasound (LUS) for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in Papua New Guinea.

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Can point-of-care ultrasound support tuberculosis diagnosis in children? The experience of MSF in Guinea-Bissau

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Ultrasound technology: providing "more" for research and clinical care in low-resource settings

Conlon TW, Himebauch AS, Stratta EM, Srinivasan V
2022-07-01 • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
2022-07-01 • Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Web-based deliberate practice of pediatric point of care ultrasound cases in resource-limited settings

Ricci A, Lindsay D, Schwanfelder C, Stratta E, Lee M,  et al.
2025-03-07 • Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
2025-03-07 • Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

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The main objective of this study was to implement an online pediatric case‐based POCUS course in low‐resource medical settings and examine learning o...

Web-based deliberate practice of pediatric point-of-care ultrasound cases in resource-limited settings.

Ricci A, Lindsay D, Schwanfelder C, Stratta E, Lee M,  et al.
2025-03-07 • Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
2025-03-07 • Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

OBJECTIVES

The main objective of this study was to implement an online pediatric case‐based point‐of‐care ultrasound (POCUS) course in low‐resource medical sett...

Evaluation of a lung ultrasound score in hospitalized adult patients with COVID-19 in Barcelona, Spain

Lightowler MS, Sander JV, García de Casasola Sánchez G, Mateos González M, Güerri-Fernández R,  et al.
2024-06-02 • Journal of Clinical Medicine
2024-06-02 • Journal of Clinical Medicine
BACKGROUND
During the COVID-19 pandemic and the burden on hospital resources, the rapid categorization of high-risk COVID-19 patients became essential, and lung ultrasound (LUS) emer...

Blinded point-of-care ultrasound to support tuberculosis diagnosis in children: a Médecins Sans Frontières cross-sectional study in Malakal, South Sudan

Niykayo LF, Mahajan R, Sagrado MJ, Ajack YBP, Chol BT,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

A case report of a child with acute abdomen who benefited from point-of-care ultrasound to confirm urgent surgical diagnosis in Homa Bay Hospital, Kenya

Phillip E, Adede J, Onduto S, Ochola C, Simba R,  et al.
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

Case study on the use of POCUS and telemedicine to aid diagnosis and management of congenital cardiac disease in a low resource setting

Branthwaite C, Alasri H, Naif M, Schwanfelder C
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024
2024-05-03 • MSF Paediatric Days 2024

False-negative qualitative human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) test result (‘hook effect’) with classical ultrasound findings of complete molar pregnancy: an uncommon case

Phillipo D, Lucas S, Kalunga MP, Inyasi E, Lebba JP,  et al.
2024-01-27 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
2024-01-27 • Oxford Medical Case Reports
False-negative qualitative Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) result is a phenomenon in which large amounts of β-hCG are produced by molar pregnancy, oversaturating the test’s assay syst...

Comparison of Lung Ultrasound versus Chest X-ray for Detection of Pulmonary Infiltrates in COVID-19

Mateos Gonzalez M, de Casasola Sanchez G, Munoz FJ, Proud K, Lourdo D,  et al.
2021-02-22 • Diagnostics
2021-02-22 • Diagnostics
Point-of-care lung ultrasound (LUS) is an attractive alternative to chest X-ray (CXR), but its diagnostic accuracy compared to CXR has not been well studied in coronavirus disease 2019 (...
Moreto-Planas L, Sagrado MJ, Mahajan R, Gallo J, Biague E,  et al.
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-06-07 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

Cardiac point of care ultrasound in resource limited settings to manage children with congenital and acquired heart disease

Muhame RM, Dragulescu A, Nadimpalli A, Martinez D, Bottineau MC,  et al.
2021-03-08 • Cardiology in the Young
2021-03-08 • Cardiology in the Young
Background: In resource limited settings, children with cardiac disease present late, have poor outcomes and access to paediatric cardiology programmes is limited. Cardiac point of care ...

Can point-of-care ultrasound support tuberculosis diagnosis in children? The experience of MSF in Guinea-Bissau

Moreto-Planas L, Sagrado MJ, Mahajan R, Gallo J, Biague E,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022

Can point-of-care ultrasound support tuberculosis diagnosis in children? The experience of MSF in Guinea-Bissau

Moreto-Planas L, Sagrado MJ, Mahajan R, Gallo J, Biague E,  et al.
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
2022-05-11 • MSF Scientific Days International 2022
INTRODUCTION
Tuberculosis (TB) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in children and over 50% of childhood TB remains undiagnosed every year. As microbiological confirmati...