Why the study?
Relevant guidelines were lacking both at home and abroad to promote and standardize the clinical applications of intracardiac echocardiography during increasingly complex cardiac interventions.
This expert consensus provides standardized guidance for the clinical application of intracardiac echocardiography during cardiovascular interventions in China.
May aid ICE protocol standardization in complex interventions; leaves open RCTs versus TEE for outcomes.
In recent years, percutaneous catheter interventions have continuously evolved, becoming an essential strategy for interventional diagnosis and treatment of many structural heart diseases and arrhythmias. Along with the increasing complexity of cardiac interventions comes ever more complex demands for intraoperative imaging. Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) is well-suited for these requirements with real-time imaging, real-time monitoring for intraoperative complications, and a well-tolerated procedure. As a result, ICE is increasingly used many types of cardiac interventions. Given the lack of relevant guidelines at home and abroad and to promote and standardize the clinical applications of ICE, the members of this panel extensively evaluated relevant research findings, and they developed this consensus document after discussions and correlation with front-line clinical work experience, aiming to provide guidance for clinicians and to further improve interventional cardiovascular diagnosis and treatment procedures.
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Huimin et al. (2022) conducted a review in Structural heart diseases and arrhythmias. Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) was evaluated. Intracardiac echocardiography is recommended by Chinese experts to guide interventional procedures for multiple structural heart diseases and arrhythmias and to monitor intraoperative complications.
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