Chinese College of Critical Ultrasound

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  Protocol and Guidelines for Point-of-Care Lung Ultrasound in Diagnosing Neonatal Pulmonary Diseases Based on International Expert Consensus Jing Liu^1,2, Roberto Copetti³, Erich Sorantin⁴, Jovan Lovrenski⁵, Javier Rodriguez-Fanjul⁶, Dalibor Kurepa⁷, Xing Feng⁸, Luigi Cattaross⁹, Huayan Zhang^10,11, Misun Hwang¹², Tsu F. Yeh^13,14, Yisrael Lipener⁷, Abhay Lodha¹⁵, Jia-Qin Wang¹⁶, Hai-Ying Cao^2,17, Cai-Bao Hu^2,18, Guo-Rong Lyu¹⁹, Xin-Ru Qiu^1,2, Li-Qun Jia²⁰, Xiao-Man Wang²⁰, Xiao-Ling Ren^1,2, Jiu-Ye Guo^1,2, Yue-Qiao Gao^1,2, Jian-Jun Li^1,2, Ying Liu^1,2, Wei Fu^1,2, Yan Wang²¹, Zu-Lin Lu^1,2, Hua-Wei Wang⁸, Li-Li Shang^{22 1}Department of Neonatology and NICU, Beijing Chaoyang District Maternal and Child Healthcare Hospital, ²The Neonatal Lung Ultrasound Training Base, Chinese College of Critical Ultrasound, ³Emergency Department, Cattinara University Hospital, ⁴Division of Pediatric Radiology, Department of Radiology, Medical University Graz, ⁵Faculty of Medicine, University of Novi Sad, Radiology Department, Institute for Children and Adolescents Health Care of Vojvodina, ⁶Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Service Hospital Joan XXIII Tarragona, University Rovira i Virgil, ⁷Department of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Soochow University, ⁹Department of Neonatology, Udine University Hospital, ¹⁰Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, ¹²Intensive Care Unit, Zhejiang Hospital, ¹⁹Collaborative Innovation Center for Maternal and Infant Health Service Application Technology, Quanzhou Medical College, ²⁰Department of Neonatology and NICU, Tai'an City Central Hospital of Shandong Province, ²²Department of Intensive Care Unit, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine Lung ultrasound is a noninvasive and valuable tool for bedside evaluation of neonatal lung diseases. However, a relative lack of reference standards, protocols and guidelines may limit its application. Here, we aim to develop a standardized neonatal lung ultrasound diagnostic protocol to be used in clinical decision-making.