Fig 1.
Common lung ultrasound patterns.
(A) ‘A-lines’ are reverberation artefacts of the pleura line present in normally aerated lung tissue; they are indicated by the arrows. (B) ‘B-patterns’ are pathological signs of extravascular lung water. Here, multiple coalescent B-lines are shown between the indicator arrows, extending to the lower end of the screen. (C) ‘C-patterns’ are characteristic for pulmonary consolidation suggesting pneumonia. Here, an interruption of the normal pleural line is shown, with multiple echogenic punctiform laesions (as indicated by the arrows) and an underlying air bronchogram.
Fig 2.
*Complications can overlap in the same patient.
Table 1.
Patient characteristics and radiological findings at baseline.
Table 2.
New LUS findings observed during in-hospital stay.
Fig 3.
Lung ultrasound observations and associated case fatality rates in patients with sepsis and severe malaria (n = 102) in Bangladesh.
Fig 4.
AUROCC of LUS findings, SF ratios, and their combined ability to predict fatal outcome in patients with sepsis (n = 71) in Bangladesh.
Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristics Curve (AUROCC) of 1) Lung ultrasound (LUS) quantification of the number of lung regions (0 to 12) with a B-pattern (B1 or B2); 2) SpO2/FiO2 ratios (SF); and 3) SF and LUS combined.
Table 3.
Logistic regression model to predict in-hospital mortality in patients with sepsis (n = 71) in Bangladesh.