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See Latest ArticlesRoutine transthoracic echocardiography in a general Intensive Care Unit: An 18 month survey in 704 patients
European Journal of Internal Medicine , 05/08/09
Marcelino PA et al. - TTE can detect most cardiac structures in a general ICU. One-third of the patients studied presented cardiac structural or functional alterations and 7.5% severe previously unknown diagnoses.
paulo marcelino, 05/10/09
Echocardiography is a leading diagnostic tool for critical care patients. However other patients can also benefit from it, like those in emergency department and internal medicine wards. It is a part of the new hemodynamic concepts in this field, in a time were the phisician must live without cardiac filling pressures to guide therapy. A diagnostic tool like echocardiography is quite valuable and an aly for patients and phisicians, and represents a tipical tool on this second stage of hemodynamic leading thought in critical care medicine. More investigation in the field and structured training are necessary.
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