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Hôpital Ambroise Paré Service de Réanimation Médicale, Boulogne (Paris-West University), France
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This chapter will probably be the shortest. It was necessary to understand quietly, step-by-step, the elementary sign (the B-line, Chap. 11), the developed sign (lung rockets, Chap. 12) of interstitial syndrome, and the phenomenon of lung sliding (Chap. 10).
Lung ultrasound is a dynamic tool investigating a dynamic organ, using a sign, lung sliding, with no equivalent using traditional tools (X-rays and CT mainly). This allows to define two opposing kinds of interstitial syndrome, the transudative and the exudative interstitial syndrome. In the BLUE-protocol, they were given short labels:
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The detection in a blue patient, at the anterior chest wall, of lung rockets associated with lung sliding (each word is important) has been called the B-profile (Video 13.1).
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The B’-profile is a B-profile with abolished lung sliding (Video 13.2).