Issac Cheong1,2, Victoria Otero Castro3, Raúl Alejandro Gómez3, Pablo Martín Merlo4, Francisco Marcelo Tamagnone4. 1. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, CABA, Sanatorio De los Arcos, Juan B. Justo 909, Buenos Aires, Argentina. issac_cheong@hotmail.com. 2. Argentinian Critical Care Ultrasonography Association (ASARUC), Buenos Aires, Argentina. issac_cheong@hotmail.com. 3. Department of Critical Care Medicine, Intensive Care Unit, CABA, Sanatorio De los Arcos, Juan B. Justo 909, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 4. Argentinian Critical Care Ultrasonography Association (ASARUC), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The velocity time integral (VTI) of the left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obtained in the apical view by echocardiography can be regarded as a surrogate for the stroke volume. In critically ill patients it is often difficult to obtain an appropriate apical view to assess the VTI. The subcostal view is more accessible, but while it allows a qualitative assessment of the heart, is not adequate for estimating a reliable LVOT VTI, given the inappropriate angle between the Doppler signal and the flow through the LVOT. We present a new modified subcostal view that allows a proper LVOT VTI measurement. METHODS: This is a single-centre experimental, retrospective, and observational study using data from patients in a tertiary-care centre. We included adult patients admitted to the intensive care unit in the period from June 2020 to January 2022, who were evaluated by echocardiography and whose LVOT VTI was measured aligned with the Doppler signal in both the apical five-chamber view and the modified subcostal view. RESULTS: A total of 30 patients were evaluated in the study period by ultrasonography. The Bland-Altman method analysis of the LVOT VTI measured in the apical view compared with that obtained in the subcostal view showed a bias of 0.8 (95% CI 0.39-1.21) with a 95% limit of agreement between - 1.35 (95% CI - 2.06 to - 0.64) and 2.96 (95% CI 2.25-3.67). The percentage error was calculated to be 23%. The Pearson correlation coefficient for the two forms of measurements showed an R value of 0.98 (95% CI 0.96-0.99). CONCLUSION: The LVOT VTI measured in a modified subcostal view is useful for estimating the value of the LVOT VTI obtained in an apical view.
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