Hemodynamics in Shock Patients Assessed by Critical Care Ultrasound and Its Relationship to Outcome: A Prospective Study
Table 4
Cardiorespiratory ultrasonic variables of shock patients.
Cardiac structure/case (%)
Measure
Range
Ventricular chamber size abnormal
RV : LV area ratio
(0.18, 3.0)
RV dilatation/case (%)
31.0 (17.1)
LVEDD (cm)
(2.84, 6.05)
LV dilatation/case (%)
17.0 (13.0)
Ventricular wall hypertrophic/case (%)
75.0 (54.7)
IVS (cm)
(0.5, 1.92)
LV posterior wall (cm)
(0.57, 2.86)
Pericardial effusion/case (%)
26.0 (14.4)
Volume of pericardial effusion (cm)
(0.6, 2.2)
Diameter of pericardial effusion/case (%)
<1 cm
21.0 (11.6)
1-2 cm
4.0 (2.2)
>2 cm
1.0 (0.6)
Diameter of IVC (cm)
(0.55, 2.73)
dIVC (%)
10.77 (4.23, 33.89)
(0, 480.91)
Intermediate status volume/case (%)
39.0 (24.5)
IVC abnormal/case (%)
85.0 (53.5)
Hypovolemia
38.0 (23.9)
Hypervolemia
47.0 (29.6)
Unknown/case (%)
35.0 (22.0)
RV dysfunction/case (%)
68.0 (47.2)
TAPSE (cm)
(0.77, 3.48)
S-TV (cm/s)
(3.04, 32.3)
LV systolic dysfunction/case (%)
65.0 (40.6)
EF (%)
(16.9, 88)
MAPSE (cm)
(0.27, 2.36)
S-MV (cm/s)
(2.71, 24.0)
LV diastolic dysfunction/case (%)
113.0 (74.3)
MV-E
(37.20, 253.0)
MV-A
(32.4, 188.0)
MV-E/A
(0.52, 2.70)
MV-e
(1.55, 62.80)
MV-a
(2.09, 26.90)
E/e
(3.22, 29.62)
LUSS
(0, 22.0)
LUS abnormal/case (%)
161.0 (92.0)
Pneumothorax/case (%)
4.0 (2.3)
Pleural effusion/case (%)
101.0 (57.7)
Consolidation/atelectasis/case (%)
110.0 (62.9)
B lines/case (%)
147.0 (84.0)
Values were expressed as deviation or median (interquartile range), according to the type of data and data distribution. Abbreviations: RV: right ventricle; LV: left ventricle; IVS: interventricular septum; LVEDD: left ventricular end-diastolic dimension; IVC: inferior vena cava; dIVC: distensibility index of the inferior vena cava; TAPSE: tricuspid annular plane systolic excursion; EF: ejection fraction; MAPSE: mitral annular plane systolic excursion; MV: mitral valve; MV-E: early diastolic transmitral velocity; MV-A: late diastolic transmitral velocity; e: early mitral annulus diastolic velocity; a: later mitral annulus diastolic velocity; S-TV: tricuspid annular peak systolic velocity; S-MV: mitral annular peak systolic velocity; E/e: early diastolic transmitral velocity to early mitral annulus diastolic velocity ratio; LUS: lung ultrasound; LUSS: lung ultrasound score.
