Point-of-care multiorgan ultrasonography for the evaluation of undifferentiated hypotension in the emergency department.

Autor: Volpicelli G; Department of Emergency Medicine, S.C.D.O, Medicina d'Urgenza, Ospedale Universitario San Luigi Gonzaga, Orbassano, Turin, Italy. gio.volpicelli@tin.it, Lamorte A, Tullio M, Cardinale L, Giraudo M, Stefanone V, Boero E, Nazerian P, Pozzi R, Frascisco MF
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Intensive care medicine [Intensive Care Med] 2013 Jul; Vol. 39 (7), pp. 1290-8. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Apr 13.
DOI: 10.1007/s00134-013-2919-7
Abstrakt: Purpose: We analyzed the efficacy of a point-of-care ultrasonographic protocol, based on a focused multiorgan examination, for the diagnostic process of symptomatic, non-traumatic hypotensive patients in the emergency department.
Methods: We prospectively enrolled 108 adult patients complaining of non-traumatic symptomatic hypotension of uncertain etiology. Patients received immediate point-of-care ultrasonography to determine cardiac function and right/left ventricle diameter rate, inferior vena cava diameter and collapsibility, pulmonary congestion, consolidations and sliding, abdominal free fluid and aortic aneurysm, and leg vein thrombosis. The organ-oriented diagnoses were combined to formulate an ultrasonographic hypothesis of the cause of hemodynamic instability. The ultrasonographic diagnosis was then compared with a final clinical diagnosis obtained by agreement of three independent expert physicians who performed a retrospective hospital chart review of each case.
Results: Considering the whole population, concordance between the point-of-care ultrasonography diagnosis and the final clinical diagnosis was interpreted as good, with Cohen's k = 0.710 (95 % CI, 0.614-0.806), p < 0.0001 and raw agreement (Ra) = 0.768. By eliminating the 13 cases where the final clinical diagnosis was not agreed upon (indefinite), the concordance increased to almost perfect, with k = 0.971 (95 % CI, 0.932-1.000), p < 0.0001 and Ra = 0.978.
Conclusions: Emergency diagnostic judgments guided by point-of-care multiorgan ultrasonography in patients presenting with undifferentiated hypotension significantly agreed with a final clinical diagnosis obtained by retrospective chart review. The integration of an ultrasonographic multiorgan protocol in the diagnostic process of undifferentiated hypotension has great potential in guiding the first-line therapeutic approach.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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