Analysis of 1-year Consecutive Application with Focused Transthoracic Echocardiography in Noncardiac Surgery

Abstract

[...]point-of-care TTE is a useful modality to identify the ventricle contractility or intracardiac anatomic aberrancy in valve or pericardium with two-dimensional or color modality. [...]IVC collapsibility in patients under mechanic ventilation is a relatively more reliable predictive indicator for fluid responsiveness than static pressure-based variables. [...]our practice in this field implicated that point-of-care TTE accompanied with quantitative analysis of VTI of LVOT provided invaluable information and real-time images of cardiac structure to interpret the pathophysiological alteration associated with those critical events.