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Point-of-care ultrasound for tuberculosis management in Sub-Saharan Africa-a balanced SWOT analysis

Suttels, Veronique
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Du Toit, Jacques Daniel
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Fiogbe, Arnauld Attannon
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October 1, 2022
International Journal Of Infectious Diseases

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is an increasingly accessible skill, allowing for the decentralization of its use to nonspecialist healthcare workers to guide routine clinical decision-making. The advent of ultrasound-on-a-chip has transformed the technology into a portable mobile health device. Because of its high sensitivity to detect small consolidations, pleural effusions, and subpleural nodules, POCUS has recently been proposed as a sputum-free likely triage tool for tuberculosis (TB). To make an objective assessment of the potential and limitations of POCUS in routine TB management, we present a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) analysis based on a review of the relevant literature and focusing on Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). We identified numerous strengths and opportunities of POCUS for TB management, e.g., accessible, affordable, easy to use and maintain, expedited diagnosis, extrapulmonary TB detection, safer pleural/pericardial puncture, use in children/pregnant women/people living with HIV, targeted screening of TB contacts, monitoring TB sequelae, and creating artificial intelligence decision support. Weaknesses and external threats such as operator dependency, lack of visualization of central lung pathology, poor specificity, lack of impact assessments and data from SSA must be taken into consideration to ensure that the potential of the technology can be fully realized in research as in practice. (c) 2022 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of International Society for Infectious Diseases. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.ijid.2022.07.009
Web of Science ID

WOS:000919370400007

Author(s)
Suttels, Veronique
Du Toit, Jacques Daniel
Fiogbe, Arnauld Attannon
Wachinou, Ablo Prudence
Guendehou, Brice
Alovokpinhou, Frederic
Toukoui, Pericles
Hada, Aboudou Rassisou
Sefou, Fadyl
Vinasse, Prudence
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Date Issued

2022-10-01

Publisher

ELSEVIER SCI LTD

Published in
International Journal Of Infectious Diseases
Volume

123

Start page

46

End page

51

Subjects

Infectious Diseases

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tuberculosis

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point-of-care ultrasound

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sub-saharan africa

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utility

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safety

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hiv

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gel

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