Lung POCUS has become an essential tool in hospital medicine, offering rapid bedside assessment of respiratorypathologies, often outperforming chest radiography.

What is bullous emphysema? Read on to learn more about this lung condition, including diagnosis, symptoms, and treatments.

Background: High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE), a severe manifestation of hypoxia-induced pulmonary hypertension, continues to present a major health concern in high-altitude environments due to the ...

POCUS offers additional methods of volume assessment through lung imaging to evaluate for interstitial edema and pleural effusions. A focused cardiac evaluation with POCUS can also be helpful for ...

1 Introduction ALI is characterized by decreased lung volume, reduced lung compliance, and an imbalance in the ventilation-perfusion ratio, which leads to clinical syndromes such as diffuse pulmonary ...

Synthetic surfactant is effective in reducing respiratory distress syndrome in preterm babies. Pulmonary surfactant is a substance that prevents the air sacs of the lungs from collapsing by reducing ...