• Filippo Sanfilippo, Stephen Huang, Antoine Herpain, Martin Balik, Michelle S Chew, Fernando Clau-Terré, Carlos Corredor, Daniel De Backer, Nick Fletcher, Guillaume Geri, Armand Mekontso-Dessap, Anthony McLean, Andrea Morelli, Sam Orde, Tatjana Petrinic, Michel Slama, van der Horst Iwan C C ICC Department of Intensive Care, Maastricht University Medical Centre+, University Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands., Philippe Vignon, Paul Mayo, and Antoine Vieillard-Baron.
• Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Policlinico-Vittorio Emanuele University Hospital, Catania, Italy.
• Intensive Care Med. 2021 Jan 1; 47 (1): 1-13.

PurposeEchocardiography is a common tool for cardiac and hemodynamic assessments in critical care research. However, interpretation (and applications) of results and between-study comparisons are often difficult due to the lack of certain important details in the studies. PRICES (Preferred Reporting Items for Critical care Echocardiography Studies) is a project endorsed by the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine and conducted by the Echocardiography Working Group, aiming at producing recommendations for standardized reporting of critical care echocardiography (CCE) research studies.MethodsThe PRICE panel identified lists of clinical and echocardiographic parameters (the "items") deemed important in four main areas of CCE research: left ventricular systolic and diastolic functions, right ventricular function and fluid management. Each item was graded using a critical index (CI) that combined the relative importance of each item and the fraction of studies that did not report it, also taking experts' opinion into account.ResultsA list of items in each area that deemed essential for the proper interpretation and application of research results is recommended. Additional items which aid interpretation were also proposed.ConclusionThe PRICES recommendations reported in this document, as a checklist, represent an international consensus of experts as to which parameters and information should be included in the design of echocardiography research studies. PRICES recommendations provide guidance to scientists in the field of CCE with the objective of providing a recommended framework for reporting of CCE methodology and results.

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