Jing Liu
The Army General Hospital of the Chinese, China
Title: The lung ultrasonography for the diagnosis of neonatal lung diseases
Biography
Biography: Jing Liu
Abstract
Various lung diseases are the most common conditions and the leading cause of hospital admission and death in newborns. Generally, the differential diagnosis of lung diseases primarily relied on clinical manifestations, arterial blood gas analysis, conventional chest X-ray and computed tomography (CT) scans, the lung ultrasound is not typically applied when diagnosed neonatal lung diseases. However, chest X-ray and CT scans suffer from obvious limitations, while Lung ultrasonography (LUS) has become an important method for diagnostic examination and monitoring of lung disease. Many kinds of lung diseases, such as respiratory distress syndrome, transient tachypnea of the newborn, pneumonia, meconium aspiration syndrome, atelectasis and pneumothorax were diagnosed by chest x-ray or CT scan in the past, but can now easily be diagnosed with lung ultrasound. Lung ultrasound has many advantages over X-ray and CT scan including accuracy, reliability, low-cost and simplicity, as well as the fact that ultrasound incurs no risk of radiation damage. It is therefore feasible and convenient to perform at the bedside in a neonatal ward. This topic will focuses on the features of LUS in neonatal lung disease mentioned above and differentiating long-term oxygen dependence in premature infants; and thus to improve the application of ultrasound in pediatric respiratory diseases.