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Bilateral lung apices/anterior/midlung
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Hand position for all views, anchor hand on skin
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Anterior and posterior axillary lines starting at level of diaphragm and sliding up until lung curtain
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Hand position for lung base, anchor hand on skin
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Most lung ultrasound findings are actually ultrasound artifacts. Use the Lung Exam preset to avoid the suppression of artifacts. If you do not have this preset, turn off multibeam imaging and set “persist” to 0 (which turns off frame averaging).
Video clips are preferred to stills because of the dynamic nature of lung ultrasound findings.
The curvilinear and phased-array probes are preferable for viewing structures deep to ...