Application of updated guidelines on diastolic dysfunction in patients with severe sepsis and septic shock.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is suggested to be associated with higher mortality in severe sepsis and septic shock, yet the methods of diagnosis described in the literature are often inconsistent. The recently published 2016 American Society of Echocardiography and European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (ASE/EACVI) guidelines offer the opportunity to apply a simple pragmatic diagnostic algorithm for the detection of diastolic dysfunction; however, it has not been tested in this cohort.

Aims

We sought to assess the applicability in septic patients of recently published 2016 ASE/EACVI guidelines on diastolic dysfunction compared with the 2009 ASE guidelines. Our hypothesis was that there would be poor agreement in classifying patients.

Methods</

SUBMITTER: Clancy DJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5736511 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature