Comparison of Expert and Novice Sonographers’ Performance in Focused Lung Ultrasonography in Dyspnea (FLUID) to Diagnose Patients With Acute Heart Failure Syndrome

Abstract

Novice sonographers can identify sonographic B-lines with similar accuracy compared to an expert sonographer. Lung US has fair predictive value for pulmonary edema from acute heart failure in the hands of both novice and expert sonographers.