Table 1.
Questions
| Gender |
|---|
| Age |
| Hospital: university/non-university |
| Public/private |
| Number of beds |
| Department |
| Internal Medicine |
| Emergency Medicine |
| Other (specify) |
| Regularly performs lung ultrasound yes/no |
| What kind of echo machine do you use? fixed/portable |
| What ultrasound probes do you have available? linear/convex/sector |
| How many exams do you perform per month? |
| There is a chest ultrasound service in your hospital |
| If so, who is responsible for it |
| Internist |
| Cardiologist |
| Radiologist |
| Would you like to improve your knowledge of chest ultrasound? |
| Yes |
| No |
| In what way? |
| Fad course |
| Face-to-face course |
| Mixed modality course |
| Here are some questions on the diagnostic accuracy in different pathologies and on the strength and limits of the ultrasound method of the thorax |
| (1) The lung ultrasound has a diagnostic accuracy higher than the standard chest X-ray for the identification of pleural effusion |
| True |
| False |
| (2) The specificity of the lung point for the diagnosis of pneumothorax |
| 80% |
| 60% |
| 100% |
| 70% |
| (3) The lung ultrasound has a diagnostic accuracy comparable to the standard chest X-ray for the identification of pneumothorax |
| True |
| False |
| (4) The accuracy of the lung ultrasound for the diagnosis of pneumonia in the community is approximately equal to |
| 20% |
| 50% |
| 70% |
| 90% |