ReviewThe ultrasound journal2024
The role of point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) imaging in clinical outcomes during cardiac arrest: a systematic review.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 22 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prognostic accuracy of point-of-care ultrasound in patients with pulseless electrical activity: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Clinical application of point-of-care ultrasound during cardiopulmonary resuscitation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Can FoCUS Speed Up the Management of Acute Coronary Syndrome in the Emergency Department?Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2026Review
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- The evolution and future of point of care ultrasound in the perioperative period: narrative review.Journal of clinical monitoring and computing · 2026Review
- Rapid bedside multimodal ultrasound screening for acute type A aortic dissection: a perspective.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Point-of-care-ultrasound in cardiac arrest: a useful tool for resuscitation.Frontiers in medicine · 2026Review
- How I Teach the Estimation of Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound.ATS scholar · 2025Article
- Point-of-Care Ultrasonography Detects Vanishing Air Embolism Following Central Venous Catheter Removal in a Patient With Chest Tube Drainage: A Case Report.Clinical case reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundCardiac arrest in hospital and out-of-hospital settings is associated with high mortality rates. Therefore, a bedside test that can predict resuscitation outcomes of cardiac arrest patients is of great value. Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) has the potential to be used as an effective diagnostic and prognostic tool during cardiac arrest, particularly in observing the presence or absence of cardiac activity. However, it is highly susceptible to "self-fulfilling prophecy" and is associated with prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), which negatively impacts the survival rates of cardiac arrest patients. As a result, the current systematic review was created to assess the role of POCUS in predicting the clinical outcomes associated with out-of-hospital and in-hospital cardiac arrests.
methodsThe search for scientific articles related to our study was done either through an electronic database search (i.e., PubMed, Medline, ScienceDirect, Embase, and Google Scholar) or manually going through the reference list of the relevant articles. A quality appraisal was also carried out with the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies tool (QUADAS-2), and the prognostic test performance (sensitivity and sensitivity) was tabulated.
resultsThe search criteria yielded 3984 articles related to our topic, of which only 22 were eligible for inclusion. After reviewing the literature, we noticed a wide variation in the definition of cardiac activity, and the statistical heterogeneity was high; therefore, we could not carry out meta-analyses. The tabulated clinical outcomes based on initial cardiac rhythm and definitions of cardiac activity showed highly inconsistent results.
conclusionPOCUS has the potential to provide valuable information on the management of cardiac arrest patients; however, it should not be used as the sole predictor for the termination of resuscitation efforts.
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