Anaesthesia, critical care & pain medicine
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Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med · Feb 2015
Observational StudyEvaluation of the knowledge base of French intensivists and anaesthesiologists as concerns the interpretation of respiratory arterial pulse pressure variation.
The aims of the study were to assess the knowledge of intensivists and/or anaesthesiologists concerning respiratory arterial pulse pressure variation (PPV) and to define the criteria used to indicate a fluid challenge. ⋯ PPV was widely employed to indicate a fluid challenge and 60% of the physicians knew the prerequisites. However, the physicians did not correctly interpret all confounding factors.
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Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med · Feb 2015
Arterial pulse pressure variation suitability in critical care: A French national survey.
Arterial pulse pressure variation (PPV) has been used as an accurate index to predict fluid responsiveness. However, many confounding factors have been recently described. The aims of this study were to assess the conditions of applicability of PPV in intensive care units (ICU). ⋯ The incidence of ICU patients in whom PPV was suitable and without confounding factors were respectively 18% and 1.3% in this one-day French national survey.