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January 1, 2014Western Journal of Emergency MedicineOpen Access

Visual Estimation of Bedside Echocardiographic Ejection Fraction by Emergency Physicians

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Why the study?

Does bedside visual estimation of ejection fraction by emergency physicians agree with quantitative measurement by a cardiologist in patients presenting to the ED with dyspnea?

Population

133 patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with dyspnea.

Comparison

Bedside visual estimation of ejection fraction… vs Quantitative measurement of left ventricular…

Design

Cross-sectional

Authors

EÜErden Erol ÜnlüerAKArif KaragözHAHaldun Akoğlu

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Overview

May support trained EP visual EF estimation in ED dyspnea; leaves open prospective outcome validation.

Structured PICO

Does bedside visual estimation of ejection fraction by emergency physicians agree with quantitative measurement by a cardiologist in patients presenting to the ED with dyspnea?

P
Population
133 patients presenting to the emergency department (ED) with dyspnea.
I
Intervention
Bedside visual estimation of ejection fraction (VEF) by emergency physicians after limited focused training.
C
Comparator
Quantitative measurement of left ventricular systolic function (LVSF) by the modified Simpson's method (MSM) performed by an experienced cardiologist.
O
Outcome
Agreement between emergency physician visual estimation and cardiologist quantitative measurement of LVSF.surrogate

Emergency physicians with focused training can accurately assess left ventricular systolic function by visual estimation in patients presenting with dyspnea.

Cite This Study

Ünlüer et al. (2014) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a817642adfa6baaaee1da4chttps://doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2013.9.16185
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