ArticleAnnals of translational medicine2017
Ultrasound to assess diaphragmatic function in the critically ill-a critical perspective.
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- Monitoring and modulation of respiratory drive in patients with acute hypoxemic respiratory failure in spontaneous breathing.Internal and emergency medicine · 2024Review
- The Relationship of Diaphragmatic Ultrasound-Based and Manometric Indices With Difficult Weaning in Tracheostomized Patients.Respiratory care · 2024Article
- Ultrasonographic Assessment of Diaphragmatic Function and Its Clinical Application in the Management of Patients with Acute Respiratory Failure.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Comparison of assessment of diaphragm function using speckle tracking between patients with successful and failed weaning: a multicentre, observational, pilot study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2022Observational
- Central venous pressure swing outperforms diaphragm ultrasound as a measure of inspiratory effort during pressure support ventilation in COVID-19 patients.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2022Article
- Tissue Doppler Imaging of the Diaphragm in Healthy Subjects and Critically Ill Patients.American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2020Article
- A narrative review of diaphragm ultrasound to predict weaning from mechanical ventilation: where are we and where are we heading?The ultrasound journal · 2019Review
- Perioperative care with an ultrasound device is as Michael Jordan with Scotty Pippen: at its best!Journal of thoracic disease · 2018Article
- Assessing breathing effort in mechanical ventilation: physiology and clinical implications.Annals of translational medicine · 2018Review
- Diaphragm function and weaning from mechanical ventilation: an ultrasound and phrenic nerve stimulation clinical study.Annals of intensive care · 2018Article
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Abstract
Ultrasound of the diaphragm in critically ill patients has become a diagnostic technique of emerging interest among clinicians and scientists. The advantages include that it is widely available, non-invasive and examination can be performed after relatively short training and at low costs. It is used to estimate muscle mass by measurement of muscle thickness and diagnose weakness by the assessment of diaphragm movement during unassisted breathing. Thickening of the muscle during inspiration has been used to quantify force generation. The enthusiasm that surrounds this topic is shared by many clinicians and we agree that ultrasound is a valuable tool to screen for diaphragm dysfunction in intensive care unit (ICU) patients. However, in our opinion much more studies are required to validate ultrasound as a tool to quantify breathing effort. More sophisticated ultrasound techniques, such as speckle tracking imaging are promising techniques to evaluate respiratory muscle function in patients, including the critically ill.
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