Empowering the willing: the feasibility of tele-mentored self-performed pleural ultrasound assessment for the surveillance of lung health

The Ultrasound Journal

Table 2 Aggregate ability to obtain images from the complete thorax and the assessed quality of the images that could be obtained

Anatomic Location	Image generation deemed possible^a	Image quality deemed adequate (real time mentor)^b	Image quality deemed adequate (independent review)^c
(1) Right upper chest	100%	100%	100%
(2) Right lower chest	100%	100%	100%
(3) Left upper chest	100%	100%	100%
(4) Left lower chest	100%	100%	98.8%
(5) Right side lower	100%	100%	100%
(6) Right side upper	100%	100%	100%
(7) Left side lower	100%	100%	100%
(8) Left side upper	100%	100%	100%
(9) Right back lower	100%	100%	98.7%
(10) Right back middle	74.1%	95.2%	98.4%
(11) Right back upper	70.4%	100%	100%
(12) Left back lower	100%	100%	100%
(15) Left back middle	66.7%	100%	100%
(16) Left back upper	37%	100%	100%

Anatomic location is visually demonstrated in Fig. 1
^aImage Generation was the remote mentoring expert’s assessment of the interaction with the participant as to whether assessing the anatomic location was possible to image
^bImage Quality was assessed real time by the Mentor during the examination
^cImage Quality was assessed as the composite result of the a-prior independent review of the images/videos