Consensus on the Application of Lung Ultrasound in Pneumonia and Bronchiolitis in Children

This evidence-based consensus aims to establish the role of point-of-care lung ultrasound in the management of pneumonia and bronchiolitis in paediatric patients. A panel of thirteen experts form five Polish tertiary pediatric centres was involved in the development of this document. The literature...

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Published in:Diagnostics (Basel) 2020-11, Vol.10 (11), p.935
Main Authors: Jaworska, Joanna, Komorowska-Piotrowska, Anna, Pomiećko, Andrzej, Wiśniewski, Jakub, Woźniak, Mariusz, Littwin, Błażej, Kryger, Magdalena, Kwaśniewicz, Piotr, Szczyrski, Józef, Kulińska-Szukalska, Katarzyna, Buda, Natalia, Doniec, Zbigniew, Kosiak, Wojciech
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Language:English
Subjects:
bronchiolitis
Guidelines
LUS
paediatric pneumonia
Patients
Pediatrics
Pleural effusion
Pneumonia
point-of-care ultrasound
Ultrasonic imaging
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Summary:This evidence-based consensus aims to establish the role of point-of-care lung ultrasound in the management of pneumonia and bronchiolitis in paediatric patients. A panel of thirteen experts form five Polish tertiary pediatric centres was involved in the development of this document. The literature search was done in PubMed database. Statements were established based on a review of full-text articles published in English up to December 2019. The development of this consensus was conducted according to the GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations)—adopted and Delphi method. Initially, 22 proposed statements were debated over 3 rounds of on-line discussion and anonymous voting sessions. A total of 17 statements were agreed upon, including four statements referring to general issues, nine referring to pneumonia and four to bronchiolitis. For five statements experts did not achieve an agreement. The evidence supporting each statement was evaluated to assess the strength of each statement. Overall, eight statements were rated strong, five statements moderate, and four statements weak. For each statement, experts provided their comments based on the literature review and their own experience. This consensus is the first to establish the role of lung ultrasound in the diagnosis and management of pneumonia and bronchiolitis in children as an evidence-based method of imaging.
ISSN:2075-4418
2075-4418
DOI:10.3390/diagnostics10110935