Comparison of Direct vs Indirect Thoracic Ultrasound (TUS) guidance for pleural procedures and effects on pain scores

Conclusion: An improvement in pain scores immediately post-procedure was observed in the direct US group, however, without statistical significance, we are unable to reject the null hypothesis. We would recommend an adequately powered study with an increase in sample size to further evaluate this hypothesis.

Source: European Respiratory Journal - November 25, 2021 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Sundaralingam, A., Banka, R., Russel, N., Bedawi, E., Kanellakis, N., Mohamed, E., George, V., Addala, D., Hallifax, R., Wrightson, J., Rahman, N. Tags: Interventional pulmonology Source Type: research