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Focused cardiac ultrasound is a reliable tool to evaluate fluid status and guide resuscitation therapy in trauma and critically ill patients.
This review highlights the utility of focused cardiac ultrasound for fluid status assessment and image-based resuscitation in trauma and critically ill patients.
Supports focused cardiac ultrasound for fluid assessment in critical care; leaves open need for prospective validation before routine adoption.
Resuscitation to euvolemia in trauma as well as in the critically ill patient, continues to be a challenge. Focused cardiac ultrasound has been shown to be a reliable tool to evaluate fluid status and to guide therapy. The present manuscript reviews the evidence supporting the use of this tool and describes the clinical applications for image-based resuscitation using echocardiogram.
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Wesson et al. (2015) studied this question. Focused cardiac ultrasound is a reliable tool to evaluate fluid status and guide resuscitation therapy in trauma and critically ill patients.
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