
Episode 244: Pulmonary Artery Pulsatility Index to Assess Right Heart Function with Drs. Essandoh and Kumar
Anesthesia and Critical Care Reviews and Commentary (ACCRAC) Podcast
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Do You Have a Dysfunctional Right Ventricle?
When you do not ejection fraction, right, in the 4-chamber view, you have your septum and then you don't have all four walls of the ventricle. Your image may not be truly reflective of the right ventricular structure because its crescent shape is very complex. So I think that's fantastic. And Jed, I will add a little point to that. Nick explained it fantastic. And what you're saying is absolutely correct. These ratios do not lie like it doesn't matter as long as any operator can do simple subtraction and divide it by one number," he said.
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