ReviewCureus2021
The Conundrum of Volume Status Assessment: Revisiting Current and Future Tools Available for Physicians at the Bedside.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Potential implications of subclinical hypervolemia, identified by a multiparametric approach, in causing left ventricular hypertrophy in clinically euvolemic children on dialysis: a prospective longitudinal pilot study.Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, Germany) · 2026Article
- Quantifying changes in triaxial seismocardiography variability due to sub-optimal volume status.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Article
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- Knowledge and Awareness of Volume Assessment Among Emergency and Intensive Care Physicians in Saudi Arabia.Cureus · 2025Article
- Evaluation of a modified venous excess ultrasound (VExUS) protocol for estimation of venous congestion: a cohort study.The ultrasound journal · 2025Article
- Point-of-Care Ultrasonography and Worsening of Renal Function in Acute Heart Failure: A Cohort Study.Canadian journal of kidney health and disease · 2025Article
- Construction and Validation of an Early Warning Model for Predicting the 28-Day Mortality in Sepsis Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2025Article
- Mistaken Identity: Misidentification of Other Vascular Structures as the Inferior Vena Cava and How to Avoid It.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Venous excess ultrasonography (VExUS) captures dynamic changes in volume status surrounding hemodialysis: A multicenter prospective observational study.Research square · 2024Article
- A Comparison of Normalization Techniques for Individual Baseline-Free Estimation of Absolute Hypovolemic Status Using a Porcine Model.Biosensors · 2024Article
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- Association Between Changes in Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis (BIA) Parameter and the Clinical Outcomes in Patients With Acute Heart Failure.Journal of Korean medical science · 2023Observational
- Loss or Dilution-A New Diagnostic Method to Assess the Impact of Dilution on Standard Laboratory Parameters.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Systemic Venous Congestion Reviewed.Cureus · 2023Review
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- Intrarenal Doppler approaches in hemodynamics: A major application in critical care.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
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Abstract
Assessment of patients' volume status at the bedside is a very important clinical skill that physicians need in many clinical scenarios. Hypovolemia with hypotension and tissue under-perfusion are usually more alarming to physicians, but hypervolemia is also associated with poor outcomes, making euvolemia a crucial goal in clinical practice. Nevertheless, the assessment of volume status can be challenging, especially in the absence of a gold standard test that is reliable and easily accessible to assist with clinical decision-making. Physicians need to have a broad knowledge of the individual non-invasive clinical tools available for them at the bedside to evaluate volume status. In this review, we will discuss the strengths and limitations of the traditional tools, which include careful history taking, physical examination, and basic laboratory tests, and also include the relatively new tool of point-of-care ultrasound.
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