ED point-of-care ultrasonography is associated with earlier drainage of pericardial effusion: A retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the association between emergency department point-of-care cardiac ultrasonography (POCUS) utilization and time to pericardial effusion drainage during an 8-year period when the emergency ultrasound program was established at our institution.

Methods

We performed a single-center retrospective cohort study in patients undergoing pericardiocentesis or other procedure for evacuation of pericardial effusion. Data was collected using both direct queries to the electronic health record database and two-examiner chart review. The primary outcome was time to intervention for pericardial effusion drainage. Multivariable Cox regression, with and without inverse probability weighting for likelihood to receive POCUS, was used to determine the association between

SUBMITTER: Hoch VC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9937040 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature