Interstitial Syndrome in the Critically Ill: The B-Profile and the B’-Profile




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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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