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Critical care clinics · Oct 2022
ReviewFocused Cardiac Ultrasound Training for Non-cardiologists: An Overview and Recommendations for a Lower Middle-Income Country.
- Wangari Waweru-Siika, Annette Plüddemann, and Carl Heneghan.
- Department of Anaesthesia, Aga Khan University, 3rd Parklands Avenue, PO Box 30270, Nairobi-00100, Kenya; Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, United Kingdom. Electronic address: wangari.waweru-siika@kellogg.ox.ac.uk.
- Crit Care Clin. 2022 Oct 1; 38 (4): 827-837.
AbstractPoor outcomes among the critically ill in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) have been attributed in part to the challenge of diagnostic delays caused by lack of skilled personnel. Focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) by non-cardiologists may mitigate the shortage of echocardiography experts to perform emergency echocardiography at the point of care in these settings. It is however crucial that FoCUS training for non-cardiologists in LMICs be based on robust evidence to support training delivery if diagnostic accuracy is to be assured.Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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