Mansoor Bangash Profile picture
Liver & General ICM doctor and Anaesthetist, QEH Birmingham. πŸ‡¦πŸ‡«πŸ‡΅πŸ‡°πŸ‡΅πŸ‡ΈπŸ‡±πŸ‡§
Mar 9, 2022 β€’ 18 tweets β€’ 9 min read
Calling all #POCUS fans, and #criticalcare πŸ’“ 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! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡²πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡Ί consensus cardiology guidelines suggest looking at FAC and TAPSE to define RV systolic dysfunction: