Since the first descriptions on the use of lung ultrasound (LUS) for bedside evaluation of critically ill patients, important publications have underscored the utility of LUS for the detection of a wide array of pulmonary and pleural diseases, as well as for the differential diagnosis of acute respiratory failure, proving to be an important tool for a point-of-care based examination and an extended resource for examining critical patients, cited by many as the “new stethoscope”., The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak […]