Key result
Critical care echocardiography guides hemodynamic evaluation and volume responsiveness management in the ICU.
Why the study?
Nephrologists in the ICU regularly encounter critical care echocardiography as part of bedside management, necessitating an overview of its applications and interpretation.
Provides an overview of critical care echocardiography for nephrologists managing ICU patients.
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May aid nephrologists managing ICU shock; leaves open prospective validation in CKD cohorts.
Critical care echocardiography (CCE) refers to the goal-directed use of transthoracic or transesophageal echocardiography and represents one of the most common applications of critical care ultrasound. CCE can be performed at the point of care, is easily repeated following changes in clinical status, and does not expose the patient to ionizing radiation. Nephrologists who participate in the care of patients in the intensive care unit will regularly encounter CCE as part of the decision-making and bedside management of ICU patients. The four primary indications for CCE are the characterization of shock, evaluation of preload tolerance, evaluation of volume responsiveness, and serial hemodynamic assessment to evaluate response to therapeutic interventions. This article provides an overview of the anatomical structures that are routinely assessed in basic CCE, describes how these findings are incorporated into the clinical assessment of critically ill patients, and introduces some common applications of advanced CCE.
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Mitchell et al. (2021) conducted a review in Critically ill patients in the ICU. Critical care echocardiography (CCE) was evaluated. Critical care echocardiography is a goal-directed, point-of-care ultrasound application used for characterizing shock, evaluating preload tolerance and volume responsiveness in the ICU.
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