ReviewCritical care medicine2013
Focused critical care echocardiography.
Review in Critical care medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to 2 registered trials, which are not on this map. Cited by 21 papers.
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The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Influence of Point of Care Ultrasonography on Outcome of Inpatients Admitted To the Internal Ward
The Incidence of Significant Clinical Findings Using Focused Ultrasound Examination for the Heart, Lungs and Abdomen in Elderly Patients Before Emergent Surgery
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.
- Development of an Artificial Intelligence-Based System for Evaluating Transthoracic Echocardiographic Imaging in Focus Cardiac Ultrasonography.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Point-of-Care Transesophageal Echocardiography in Emergency and Intensive Care: An Evolving Imaging Modality.Biomedicines · 2025Review
- Hemodynamic Support in Sepsis.Anesthesiology · 2024Review
- Ultrasound during Advanced Life Support-Help or Harm?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Is 1 Day of Focused Training in Echocardiographic Assessment Using Subxiphoid-Only (EASy) Examination Enough? A Tertiary Hospital Response to the COVID-19 Crisis and the Use of the EASy Examination to Support Unit-Wide Image Acquisition.Critical care explorations · 2024Article
- Quantification of left ventricular ejection fraction and cardiac output using a novel semi-automated echocardiographic method: a prospective observational study in coronary artery bypass patients.BMC anesthesiology · 2023Observational
- Focused cardiac ultrasound examination in the emergency and critical care horse: Training for non-specialist veterinarians and evaluation of proficiency.Journal of veterinary internal medicine · 2022Article
- Point-of-care ultrasound in cardiorespiratory arrest (POCUS-CA): narrative review article.The ultrasound journal · 2021Review
- Hemodynamic monitoring using trans esophageal echocardiography in patients with shock.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Review
- Transesophageal echocardiography instead or in addition to transthoracic echocardiography in evaluating haemodynamic problems in intubated critically ill patients.Annals of translational medicine · 2020Article
- Physicians' abilities to obtain and interpret focused cardiac ultrasound images from critically ill patients after a 2-day training course.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2020Article
- Two-dimensional echocardiography after return of spontaneous circulation and its association with in-hospital survival after in-hospital cardiopulmonary resuscitation.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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- Assessing how emergency and trauma ultrasonography is taught to medical students.Einstein (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2019Article
- Levels of training in critical care echocardiography in adults. Recommendations from the College of Intensive Care Medicine Ultrasound Special Interest Group.Australasian journal of ultrasound in medicine · 2019Article
- Self-learning of point-of-care cardiac ultrasound - Can medical students teach themselves?PloS one · 2018Article
- Teaching to the test: developing an assessment tool for novice echocardiographers.Journal of thoracic disease · 2016Article
- Clinical utility of semi-automated estimation of ejection fraction at the point-of-care.Heart, lung and vessels · 2015Article
- Cardiac output measured by transthoracic echocardiography and Swan-Ganz catheter. A comparative study in mechanically ventilated patients with high positive end-expiratory pressure.Revista Brasileira de terapia intensivaArticle
- Quality Assurance and Improvement Project in Echocardiography Laboratory: The Pivotal Importance of Organizational and Managerial Processes.Heart views : the official journal of the Gulf Heart AssociationReview
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivePortable ultrasound is now used routinely in many ICUs for various clinical applications. Echocardiography performed by noncardiologists, both transesophageal and transthoracic, has evolved to broad applications in diagnosis, monitoring, and management of critically ill patients. This review provides a current update on focused critical care echocardiography for the management of critically ill patients.
methodSource data were obtained from a PubMed search of the medical literature, including the PubMed "related articles" search methodology. SUMMARY AND
conclusionsAlthough studies demonstrating improved clinical outcomes for critically ill patients managed by focused critical care echocardiography are generally lacking, there is evidence to suggest that some intermediate outcomes are improved. Furthermore, noncardiologists can learn focused critical care echocardiography and adequately interpret the information obtained. Noncardiologists can also successfully incorporate focused critical care echocardiography into advanced cardiopulmonary life support. Formal training and proctoring are important for safe application of focused critical care echocardiography in clinical practice. Further outcomes-based research is urgently needed to evaluate the efficacy of focused critical care echocardiography.
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