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- Title
An Assessment of Carotid Flow Time Using a Portable Handheld Ultrasound Device: The Ideal Tool for Guiding Intraoperative Fluid Management?
- Authors
Gibson, Lauren E.; Mitchell, James E.; Bittner, Edward A.; Chang, Marvin G.
- Abstract
Volume resuscitation is a cornerstone of modern anesthesia care. Finding the right balance to avoid inadequate or excess volume administration is often difficult to clinically discern and can lead to negative consequences. Pulse pressure variation is often intraoperatively used to guide volume resuscitation; however, this requires an invasive arterial line and is generally only applicable to patients who are mechanically ventilated. Unfortunately, without a pulmonary artery catheter or another costly noninvasive device, performing serial measurements of cardiac output is challenging, time-consuming, and often impractical. Furthermore, noninvasive measures such as LVOT VTI require significant technical expertise as well as access to the chest, which may not be practical during and after surgery. Other noninvasive techniques such as bioreactance and esophageal Doppler require the use of costly single-use sensors. Here, we present a case report on the use of corrected carotid flow time (ccFT) from a portable, handheld ultrasound device as a practical, noninvasive, and technically straightforward method to assess fluid responsiveness in the perioperative period, as well as the inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Subjects
PULMONARY artery catheters; CAROTID artery ultrasonography; ARTIFICIAL respiration; CAROTID intima-media thickness; PULMONARY artery; CARDIAC output; FLUIDS
- Publication
Micromachines, 2023, Vol 14, Issue 3, p510
- ISSN
2072-666X
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.3390/mi14030510