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

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Serval ID
serval:BIB_FCF9CFE7D03C
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Point-of-care ultrasound for tuberculosis management in Sub-Saharan Africa-a balanced SWOT analysis.
Journal
International journal of infectious diseases
Author(s)
Suttels V., Du Toit J.D., Fiogbé A.A., Wachinou A.P., Guendehou B., Alovokpinhou F., Toukoui P., Hada A.R., Sefou F., Vinasse P., Makpemikpa G., Capo-Chichi D., Garcia E., Brahier T., Keitel K., Ouattara K., Cissoko Y., Beye S.A., Mans P.A., Agodokpessi G., Boillat-Blanco N. (co-last), Hartley M.A.
ISSN
1878-3511 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
1201-9712
Publication state
Published
Issued date
10/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
123
Pages
46-51
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Artificial Intelligence, Child, Female, Humans, Point-of-Care Systems, Point-of-Care Testing, Pregnancy, Tuberculosis/diagnostic imaging, Tuberculosis/drug therapy, Ultrasonography, Point-of-care ultrasound, Sub-Saharan Africa, Tuberculosis
Pubmed
Open Access
Yes
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18/07/2022 10:45
Last modification date
02/05/2024 8:01
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