Critical Care Transesophageal Echocardiography in Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has placed an extraordinary strain on healthcare systems across North America. Defining the optimal approach for managing a critically ill COVID-19 patient is rapidly changing. Goal-directed transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) is frequently used by physicians caring for intubated critically ill patients as a reliable imaging modality that is well suited to answer questions at bedside.

METHODS: A multidisciplinary (intensive care, critical care cardiology, and emergency medicine) group of experts in point-of-care echocardiography and TEE from the United States and Canada convened to review the available evidence, share experiences, and produce a consensus statement aiming to provide clinicians with a framework to maximize the safety of patients and healthcare providers when considering focused point-of-care TEE in critically ill patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.

RESULTS: Although transthoracic echocardiography can provide the information needed in most patients, there are specific scenarios in which TEE represents the modality of choice. TEE provides acute care clinicians with a goal-directed framework to guide clinical care and represents an ideal modality to evaluate hemodynamic instability during prone ventilation, perform serial evaluations of the lungs, support cardiac arrest resuscitation, and guide veno-venous ECMO cannulation. To aid other clinicians in performing TEE during the COVID-19 pandemic, we describe a set of principles and practical aspects for performing examinations with a focus on the logistics, personnel, and equipment required before, during, and after an examination.

CONCLUSIONS: In the right clinical scenario, TEE is a tool that can provide the information needed to deliver the best and safest possible care for the critically ill patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:33

Enthalten in:

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography - 33(2020), 8 vom: 01. Aug., Seite 1040-1047

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Teran, Felipe [VerfasserIn]
Burns, Katharine M [VerfasserIn]
Narasimhan, Mangala [VerfasserIn]
Goffi, Alberto [VerfasserIn]
Mohabir, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Horowitz, James M [VerfasserIn]
Yuriditsky, Eugene [VerfasserIn]
Nagdev, Arun [VerfasserIn]
Panebianco, Nova [VerfasserIn]
Chin, Eric J [VerfasserIn]
Gottlieb, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Koenig, Seth [VerfasserIn]
Arntfield, Robert [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory syndrome associated with COVID-19
COVID-19
Journal Article
Novel coronavirus
Point-of-care ultrasound
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
Review
SARS-CoV-2
Transesophageal echocardiography

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Date Completed 31.08.2020

Date Revised 11.11.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.echo.2020.05.022

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM311788114