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The use of preoperative inferior vena cava ultrasound to predict anaesthesia-induced hypotension: a systematic review.
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- Inferior vena cava ultrasound to predict hypotension after general anesthesia induction: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Pooled it
- Inferior vena cava collapsibility index as a predictor of hypotension after induction of general anesthesia in hypertensive patients.BMC anesthesiology · 2023Trial
- Pre-induction nociception indices are associated with post-induction hypotension during general anesthesia in older patients: a prospective observational study.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2026Observational
- Intraoperative Management of Liquids in Liposuction Based on the Variability of the Inferior Vena Cava.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2025Article
- Ultrasonic volume assessment-guided successful rescue of cardiac arrest caused by intraoperative severe anaphylactic shock: a case report.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Article
- Development and validation of a prediction model for post-induction hypotension in elderly patients undergoing non-cardiac surgery: a prospective cohort study.BMC anesthesiology · 2025Article
- Exploring the predictive value of carotid Doppler ultrasound and clinical features for spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension: a prospective observational study.Perioperative medicine (London, England) · 2025Article
- Inferior vena cava collapsibility index for predicting hypotension after spinal anesthesia in patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty.Die Anaesthesiologie · 2024Article
- Inferior vena cava collapsibility index: a unique point-of-care ultrasound tool to assess postinduction hypotension?Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2024Article
- Preoperative Ultrasound for the Prediction of Postinduction Hypotension: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- Preoperative echocardiography as a predictor of spinal anesthesia-induced hypotension in older patients with mild left ventricular diastolic dysfunction: a retrospective observational study.Anesthesia and pain medicine · 2024Article
- Accuracy of Pocket-sized Ultrasound Devices to Evaluate Inferior Vena Cava Diameter and Variability in Critically Ill Patients.Indian journal of critical care medicine : peer-reviewed, official publication of Indian Society of Critical Care Medicine · 2024Article
- Correlations between preoperative fluid status assessed by bioimpedance analysis and hypotension during anaesthesia induction.Anaesthesiology intensive therapy · 2024Observational
- Comments on: Efficacy of inferior vena cava collapsibility index and caval aorta index in predicting the incidence of hypotension after spinal anaesthesia- A prospective, blinded, observational study.Indian journal of anaesthesia · 2023Article
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Abstract
Preoperative ultrasound assessment of inferior vena cava (IVC) diameter and the collapsi-bility index might identify patients with intravascular volume depletion. The purpose of this review was to gather the existing evidence to find out whether preoperative IVC ultrasound (IVCUS) derived parameters can reliably predict hypotension after spinal or general anaesthesia. PubMed was searched to identify research articles that addressed the role of IVC ultrasound in predicting hypotension after spinal and general anaesthesia in adult patients. We included 4 randomized control trials and 17 observational studies in our final review. Among these, 15 studies involved spinal anaesthesia and 6 studies involved general anaesthesia. Heterogeneity with respect to the patient populations under evaluation, definitions used for hypotension after anaesthesia, IVCUS assessment methods, and cut-off values for IVCUS-derived parameters to predict hypotension precluded pooled meta-analysis. The maximum and minimum reported sensitivity of the IVC collapsibility index (IVCCI) for predicting post-spinal hypotension was 84.6% and 58.8% respectively, while the maximum and minimum specificities were 93.1% and 23.5% respectively. For the prediction of hypotension after general anaesthesia induction, the reported ranges of sensitivity and specificity of IVCCI were 86.67% to 45.5% and 94.29% to 77.27%, respectively. Current literature on the predictive role of IVCUS for hypotension after anaesthesia is heterogeneous both in methodology and in results. Standardization of the definition of hypotension under anaesthesia, method of IVCUS assessment, and the cut-offs for IVC diameter and the collapsibility index for prediction of hypotension after anaesthesia are necessary for drawing clinically relevant conclusions.
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