Point-of-care Lung Ultrasound Is More Sensitive than Chest Radiograph for Evaluation of COVID-19

Introduction: Current recommendations for diagnostic imaging for moderately to severely ill patients with suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) include chest radiograph (CXR). Our primary objective was to determine whether lung ultrasound (LUS) B-lines, when excluding patients with alternative etiologies for B-lines, are more sensitive for the associated diagnosis of COVID-19 than CXR.Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study of all...