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Bedside echocardiography serves as a crucial non-invasive point-of-care tool for evaluating cardiac function, volume status, and hemodynamics in critically ill ICU patients.
Bedside echocardiography is an essential, non-invasive point-of-care tool for assessing hemodynamics, volume status, and cardiac function to guide clinical management in critically ill ICU patients.
May support bedside echocardiography for ICU hemodynamics; leaves open need for prospective outcome trials.
Bedside echocardiography has become a useful tool for hemodynamic assessment of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU). Direct visualization of the cardiac anatomy and functions as well as non-invasive measurement of doppler hemodynamics helps not only to diagnose cardiac problems (such as global or regional left ventricular function, valvular heart disease, and pericardial effusion), but also to determine hemodynamic status (such as volume status). The easy accessibility, non-invasiveness, and portability allow periodic monitoring during critical ICU periods. Therefore, increasing requests from ICU physicians make bedside echocardiography a point-of-care especially in hypotensive patients. This review will discuss echocardiography-based assessment of ICU patients, focusing on patients with hypotension or mechanical ventilators.
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Yang et al. (2017) conducted a review in Hemodynamic instability in intensive care unit patients. Bedside echocardiography was evaluated. Bedside echocardiography serves as a crucial non-invasive point-of-care tool for evaluating cardiac function, volume status, and hemodynamics in critically ill ICU patients.
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