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Basic critical care echocardiography training of intensivists allows reproducible and reliable measurements of cardiac output.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Although pulmonary artery catheters (PACs) have been the reference standard for calculating cardiac output, echocardiographic estimation of cardiac output (CO) by cardiologists has shown high accuracy compared to PAC measurements. A few studies have assessed the accuracy of echocardiographic estimation of CO in critically ill patients by intensivists with basic training. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of CO measurements by intensivists with basic training using pulsed-wave Doppler ultrasound vs. PACs in critically ill patients. METHODS:Critically ill patients who required hemodynamic monitoring with a PAC were eligible for the study. Three different intensivists with basic critical care echocardiography training obtained three measurements of CO on each patient. The maximum of three separate left-ventricular outflow tract diameter measurements and the mean of three LVOT velocity time integral measurements were used. The inter-observer reliability and correlation of CO measured by PACs vs. critical care echocardiography were assessed. RESULTS:A total of 20 patients were included. Data were analyzed comparing the measurements of CO by PAC vs. echocardiography. The inter-observer reliability for measuring CO by echocardiography was good based on a coefficient of intraclass correlation of 0.6 (95% CI 0.48-0.86, p?

SUBMITTER: Villavicencio C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6638616 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Basic critical care echocardiography training of intensivists allows reproducible and reliable measurements of cardiac output.

Villavicencio Christian C   Leache Julen J   Marin Judith J   Oliva Iban I   Rodriguez Alejandro A   Bodí María M   Soni Nilam J NJ  

The ultrasound journal 20190416 1


<h4>Background</h4>Although pulmonary artery catheters (PACs) have been the reference standard for calculating cardiac output, echocardiographic estimation of cardiac output (CO) by cardiologists has shown high accuracy compared to PAC measurements. A few studies have assessed the accuracy of echocardiographic estimation of CO in critically ill patients by intensivists with basic training. The aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of CO measurements by intensivists with basic training u  ...[more]

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