Table 1 Diagnostic capability of hand-held echocardiography and conventional transthoracic echocardiography, according to clinicalproblems (n = 229) and additional diagnoses (n = 22) assessed in 103 consecutive ventilated patients
From: Diagnostic ability of hand-held echocardiography in ventilated critically ill patients
Hand-held echocardiography | Transthoracic echocardiography | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Clinical problem | No response (n) | Present (n) | Absent (n) | Diagnostic capability (%) | No response (n) | Present (n) | Absent (n) | Diagnostic capability (%) |
Left ventricular systolic dysfunction (n = 88) | 10 | 31 | 47 | 82 | 10 | 35 | 43 | 89 |
Cor pulmonale/pulmonary hypertension (n = 42) | 2 | 13 | 27 | 71 | 2 | 23 | 17 | 95 |
Valvulopathy/valvular prosthesis assessment (n = 29) | 1 | 8 | 20 | 83 | 1 | 12 | 16 | 96 |
Pericardial effusion/tamponade (n = 20) | 4 | 7 | 9a | 75 | 4 | 7 | 9a | 75 |
Pleural effusion (n = 13) | 0 | 11 | 2 | 100 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 100 |
Volume status assessment (n = 18) | 4 | 10 | 4 | 78 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 78 |
Cardiac trauma (n = 10) | 3 | 2 | 5 | 70 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 70 |
Intracardiac shunt (n = 9) | 1 | 4 | 4 | 78 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 89 |
Endocarditis (n = 8) | 0 | 2 | 6a | 87 | 0 | 2 | 6a | 87 |
Source of arterial embolism (n = 8) | 1 | 3 | 4 | 87 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 87 |
Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction (n = 3) | 0 | 0 | 3 | - | 0 | 3 | 0 | - |
Acute aortic condition (n = 3) | 0 | 1 | 2 | - | 0 | 1 | 2 | - |