Portable ultrasound assessment of jugular venous pressure is an accurate method for estimating volaemic status in patients with cardiac disease.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

The objective of this study was to determine whether ultrasound-measured jugular venous pressure (U-JVP) could accurately estimate central venous pressure (CVP).

Methods

This prospective, diagnostic, single-centre study was performed at the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit of the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK. Post-cardiac surgery patients were recruited from January to May 2019. The investigators were blinded to the central venous pressure when measuring the jugular venous pressure. U-JVP and direct CVP were measured simultaneously. Measurements were taken whilst the patient was ventilated and then repeated when the patient was extubated, providing non-ventilated readings.

Results

One-hundred and fourteen consecutive participants with a male predominanc

SUBMITTER: Jenkins S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9705668 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature