Background Focused cardiac ultrasound (FoCUS) is a simplified, clinician-performed
application of echocardiography that is rapidly expanding in use, especially in emergency …

In the intensive care unit, patient lung ultrasound provides accurate information on lung
morphology with diagnostic and therapeutic relevance. It enables clinicians easy, rapid, and …

Background Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is nowadays an essential tool in critical care.
Its role seems more important in neonates and children where other monitoring techniques …

Objective: To establish evidence-based guidelines for the use of bedside cardiac
ultrasound, echocardiography, in the ICU and equivalent care sites. Methods: Grading of …

The value of ultrasound as a diagnostic cardiac modality is in many respects unparalleled. It
is more portable and less expensive compared with other imaging modalities (computed …

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is a safe and rapidly evolving diagnostic modality
that is now utilized by health care professionals from nearly all specialties. Technological …

Objective To describe current use and diagnostic and therapeutic impacts of point-of-care
ultrasound (POCUS) in the intensive care unit (ICU). Background POCUS is of growing …

Training in ultrasound techniques for intensive care medicine physicians should aim at
achieving competencies in three main areas:(1) general critical care ultrasound …

Background Bedside transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) provides rapid and noninvasive
hemodynamic assessment of critically ill patients but is limited by the immediate availability …

Hemodynamic instability and inadequate cardiac performance are common in critically ill
children. The clinical assessment of hemodynamic status is reliant upon physical …