• Medicina intensiva · Dec 2019

    Evaluation of intensivist basic training in transthoracic echocardiography in the postoperative period of heart surgery.

    • O Moreno, A Ochagavía, A Artigas, C Espinal, R Tomás, M D Bosque, C Fortià, and F Baigorri.
    • Critical Care Department, Hospital Universitari General de Catalunya, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain; Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: olgamfon@icloud.com.
    • Med Intensiva. 2019 Dec 1; 43 (9): 538-545.

    BackgroundTransthoracic echocardiography can significantly change the management of many critical patients, and is being incorporated into many Intensive Care Units (ICU). Very few studies have examined the feasibility and impact of intensivists performing basic transthoracic echocardiography upon the management of critical patients after cardiac surgery. The present study therefore evaluates the quality of acquisition and accuracy of intensivist interpretation of basic transthoracic echocardiograms in the postoperative period of heart surgery.MethodsOver an 8-month period we prospectively studied 148 patients within 24h after admission to a university hospital ICU following heart surgery. We performed basic transthoracic echocardiography to evaluate ventricular function, pericardial effusion, hypovolemia and mitral regurgitation. Cohen's Kappa was used to compare transthoracic echocardiograms obtained by intensivists with basic versus advanced training. Concordance on image acquisition and interpretation was evaluated.ResultsWe analyzed data of adequate transthoracic echocardiograms in 148 patients (92.5%). Apical four-chamber view and advanced trainees obtained better quality images. Concordance was good for right and left ventricular function (kappa=0.7±0.14 and 0.87±0.05, respectively), and moderate for the remaining parameters. Interpretation concordance between basic and advanced training intensivists was good (kappa=0.73±0.05).ConclusionsIntensivists with basic training in echocardiography are capable of performing and interpreting echocardiograms in most patients during the postoperative period of heart surgery.Copyright © 2018. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U.

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