Benefits, Open questions and Challenges of the use of Ultrasound in the COVID-19 pandemic era. The views of a panel of worldwide international experts.

• Piscaglia F COVID-19 Unit & Unit of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S.Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy.
• Stefanini F COVID-19 Unit & Unit of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S.Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy.
• Cantisani V Radiological, Anatomo-pathological and Oncologic Sciences Department, Policlinico Umberto I, University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
• Sidhu PS Department of Radiology, King's College London. King's College Hospital, London, UK.
• Barr R Radiology, Northeastern Ohio Medical University, USA.
• Berzigotti A Hepatology, University Clinic for visceral surgery and medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Switzerland.
• Chammas MC Ultrasound Division of Hospital das Clínicas, School of Medicine, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
• Correas JM Department of Adult Radiology, Paris University & Necker University Hospital, Paris, France.
• Dietrich CF Kliniken Hirslanden Beau Site, Salem und Permanence, Bern, Switerzeland.
• Feinstein S Rush Universty Medical Center, Chicago, USA.
• Huang P Department of Ultrasound in Medicine,the Second Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University School of Medicine, China.
• Jenssen C Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus Märkisch-Oderland, Strausberg, and Brandenburg Institute for Clinical Ultrasound (BICUS), Medical University Brandenburg, Neuruppin, Germany.
• Kono Y Department of Medicine, Radiology, University of California, San Diego, USA.
• Kudo M Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Japan.
• Liang P Interventional Ultrasound Department, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
• Lyshchik A Radiology Unity, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, USA.
• Nolsøe C Centre for Surgical Ultrasound, Dep of Surgery, Zealand University Hospital, Køge, Copenhagen Denmark.
• Xie X Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Ultrasound The First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China.
• Tovoli F COVID-19 Unit & Unit of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria S.Orsola Malpighi, Bologna, Italy.

Betacoronavirus

Coronavirus Infections

Humans

Pandemics

Pneumonia, Viral

Ultrasonography