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#NHS consultant and @ICS_updates #FUSIC co-chair | editor @OUPMedicine Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound | why guess when you can know?
Jun 21, 2021 12 tweets 11 min read
What are the key clinical questions about haemodynamics that ultrasound can answer?

@icmteaching, @wilkinsonjonny and I are going to take you through the 10 most important…

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Q1. Is stroke volume abnormal?

#FUSIC #echofirst #POCUS #ultrasound #haemodynamics Despite shock being such an important diagnosis, intensive care clinicians are rubbish at detecting a low or high cardiac output (CO) clinically.

Sensitivity of detecting cardiac index (CI) < 2 clinically in this study was 0!

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