Sarcouncil Journal of Medical Series

Abstract: Objective: Today, lung ultrasound provides an important bedside tool in the emergency department evaluation of CAP. During this study, a wireless ultrasound probe and mobile phone real-time scanning were used to evaluate the correlation between lung ultrasound findings in CAP and CURB-65 scores in trying to identify an ultrasound finding correlating with a higher CURB-65 score. Method: Fifty patients were enrolled in the study. The CURB-65 score and each lung ultrasound finding were correlated using math lab R 2018 programming language; variables were correlated by the Pearson correlation method, also calculating the P-value. Results: Hepatization or tissue-like appearance of the lung (with/out) air bronchogram on sonography showed a high correlation (0.66) with a CURB-65 score of ≥3, and this correlation was highly statistically significant (P=0.002). Conclusion: Lung ultrasound by a wireless probe is simple and easy as well as reliable enough to serve as a guide in the disposition of CAP patients. Hence, sonographic hepatization of the lung in patients with CAP correlates with higher CURB-65 scores and could thus be used to direct the disposition of the patient.