Liver & General ICM doctor and Anaesthetist, QEH Birmingham. 🇦🇫🇵🇰🇵🇸
Mar 9, 2022 • 18 tweets • 9 min read
Calling all #POCUS fans, and #criticalcare 💓 afficionados! Asking if we have the right tools to identify RV dysfunction (RVD) in ICU?? We took an unbiased view (paper link at end of a long thread 🧵)....
The RV is not regular and so dysfunction can sometimes be found in one measure but not another - the crooked RV demands more than one guard to be caught playing up! 🇺🇲🇨🇦🇪🇺 consensus cardiology guidelines suggest looking at FAC and TAPSE to define RV systolic dysfunction: