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The revised recommendations include 83 new or revised statements across 7 domains, informed by 21 experts and 1154 publications.
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The recommendations address terminology, image acquisition, and diagnosis, monitoring, and prognosis of pneumothorax, interstitial syndrome, consolidation, and pleural effusion.
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The review criticizes the literature search for relying on PubMed alone and notes that the recommendations provide no GRADE certainty ratings.
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The authors argue that limited expert representation and insufficient comparison with other consensus documents may weaken disciplinary balance and contribute to fragmentation.
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The recommendations reaffirm that point-of-care lung ultrasound is part of multimodal assessment and that clinicians should treat the patient rather than the image.
