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 C

SUBMITTER: Villavicencio C 

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

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature