Background: Introduction: Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) expediently detects the pulmonary manifestations of COVID-19 and is predictive of patient outcomes. Although lung POCUS can be used in the diagnosis and management of patients hospitalized with COVID-19, there are no standardized scanning protocols. Furthermore, it is not known how much scanning is needed to sufficiently rule-in the pulmonary […]

Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has disproportionately affected certain racial and ethnic minority groups, many of whom may not speak english as a primary language. Patients with Limited English proficiency (LEP) have previously been shown to have worse outcomes in the hospital, including higher odds of mortality from sepsis. We investigated the association […]