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Med Crit 2014; 28 (2)

Bedside ultrasound by the Intensive Care Physician. Experience in a second level care hospital

Calderón GJA

Language: Spanish
References: 36
Page: 85-90
PDF size: 252.96 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Bedside ultrasound in the critically ill patient has become a useful tool in intensive care owing to their valuable real-time information allowing to optimize treatment in specific situations becoming more relevant in low availability of resources due to its portability, absence of adverse effects and reliability.
Objectives: To describe the experience by using focused critical care sonography performed by the intensivist physician into a second level hospital care.
Design: Case series.
Setting: Intensive Care Unit Hospital General de Zona No. 4, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social.
Patients: 21 patients with different diagnoses.
Interventions: Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions according to sonographic findings.
Results: We collected and analyzed ultrasound images of all assessments and subsequent interventions of which 12 patients (57%) underwent a pharmacological intervention and 9 patients (43%) a non-pharmacological.
Conclusions: Intensive care focused ultrasound is useful to optimize the management of critically ill patients and should be considered as a relevant tool for the intensivist physician.


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