Front-door thoracic ultrasound in patients with community-acquired pneumonia to diagnose and predict pleural infection: a prospective study

• Malvika Bhatnagar,
• Naomi Chamberlin,
• Najib M. Rahman,
• Andrew E. Stanton

Affiliations

Malvika Bhatnagar

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Naomi Chamberlin

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Sunderland Royal Hospital, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust, Sunderland, UK

Najib M. Rahman

Respiratory Trials Unit, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Disease, Oxford University Hospital, Oxford Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Churchill Hospital, NHS Trust, Oxford, UK

Andrew E. Stanton

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK