Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2105-y
Title: Chest radiography versus lung ultrasound for identification of acute respiratory distress syndrome: A retrospective observational study
Authors: See, K.C 
Ong, V
Tan, Y.L
Sahagun, J
Taculod, J
Keywords: adult
adult respiratory distress syndrome
Article
controlled study
diagnostic test accuracy study
echography
female
hospital admission
hospital mortality
human
intensive care unit
intermethod comparison
lung ultrasound
major clinical study
male
noninvasive ventilation
observational study
predictive value
priority journal
respiratory failure
retrospective study
thorax radiography
adult respiratory distress syndrome
diagnostic imaging
echography
organization and management
procedures
radiography
standards
thorax
Adult
Female
Humans
Intensive Care Units
Male
Radiography
Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Adult
Retrospective Studies
Thorax
Ultrasonography
Issue Date: 2018
Publisher: BioMed Central Ltd.
Citation: See, K.C, Ong, V, Tan, Y.L, Sahagun, J, Taculod, J (2018). Chest radiography versus lung ultrasound for identification of acute respiratory distress syndrome: A retrospective observational study. Critical Care 22 (1) : 203. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-018-2105-y
Abstract: Background: Lung ultrasound may be a reasonable alternative to chest radiography for the identification of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), but the diagnostic performance of lung ultrasound for ARDS is uncertain. We therefore analyzed the clinical outcomes of ARDS diagnosed according to the Berlin Definition, using either chest radiography (Berlin-CXR) or lung ultrasound (Berlin-LUS) as an alternative imaging method. Methods: This was a retrospective observational study in a 20-bed medical intensive care unit (ICU). Patients who required noninvasive ventilation or invasive ventilation for hypoxemic respiratory failure on ICU admission from August 2014 to March 2017 were included. Both chest radiography and lung ultrasound were performed routinely upon ICU admission. Comparisons were made using either the Berlin-CXR or Berlin-LUS definitions to diagnose ARDS with respect to the patient characteristics and clinical outcomes for each definition. ICU and hospital mortality were the main outcome measures for both definitions. Results: The first admissions of 456 distinct patients were analyzed. Compared with the 216 patients who met the Berlin-CXR definition (ICU mortality 19.4%, hospital mortality 36.1%), 229 patients who met the Berlin-LUS definition (ICU mortality 22.7%, hospital mortality 34.5%) and 79 patients who met the Berlin-LUS but not the Berlin-CXR definition (ICU mortality 21.5%, hospital mortality 29.1%) had similar outcomes. In contrast, the 295 patients who met either definition had higher mortality than the 161 patients who did not meet either definition (ICU mortality 20.0% versus 12.4%, P=0.041; hospital mortality 34.2% versus 24.2%, P=0.027). Compared with Berlin-CXR, Berlin-LUS had a positive predictive value of 0.66 (95% confidence interval 0.59-0.72) and a negative predictive value of 0.71 (0.65-0.77). Among the 216 Berlin-CXR ARDS patients, 150 patients (69.4%) also fulfilled Berlin-LUS definition. Conclusions: For the identification of ARDS using the Berlin definition, both chest radiography and lung ultrasound were equally related to mortality. The Berlin definition using lung ultrasound helped identify patients at higher risk of death, even if these patients did not fulfill the conventional Berlin definition using chest radiography. However, the moderate overlap of patients when chest imaging modalities differed suggests that chest radiography and lung ultrasound should be complementary rather than used interchangeably. © 2018 The Author(s).
Source Title: Critical Care
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/175106
ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-018-2105-y
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