Whether you are the ultrasound educational lead for your hospital/ trust, a routine user or interested novice we’re sure that you will have seen lots of exciting data on twitter (using the #POCUSforCOVID hashtag), suggesting that USS has a role in the diagnosis and perhaps prognosis of Covid-19.

Maybe you’re self isolating right now and looking to get trained up on this new disease ready to return to the hospital soon.

Like you, we were excited to read how Lung ultrasound (LUS) can show early changes that may be as reliable as CT and probably better than CXR.

You may even own one of the new handheld ultrasound devices and spend your quiet hours scanning your own chest in less than the time it takes to boil the kettle, and then posting the results on Instagram (Ed – we know who you are).

We are USS enthusiasts, we openly admit that but we are also evidence based emergency physicians, so before you just accept our word that USS is a revolution in Covid-19 diagnostics, we need to look at the evidence, the practicalities and the experience of those who are already using it in practice.

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